Patents by Inventor Kenneth Gall

Kenneth Gall has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20250009932
    Abstract: Knee implants having a convex outer surface formed of a stack of sheets of bacterial cellulose that is between 2-10 mm thick and has been impregnated and crosslinked to form a hydrogel having a concentration of cross-linked bacterial cellulose nanofibers of between 2-20 weight % of the hydrogel, so that the hydrogel has a tensile strength of greater than 5 MPa, a tensile modulus of greater than 8 MPa, and a compression strength of greater than 14 MPa. The implant may have a metallic body and may be generally mushroom-shaped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Benjamin WILEY, Feichen YANG, Kenneth GALL, Jonathan RIBOH
  • Publication number: 20210369915
    Abstract: Artificial cartilage materials for repair and replacement of cartilage (e.g., load-bearing, articular cartilage). The artificial cartilage materials described herein include triple-network hydrogels including a cross-linked fiber network (e.g., a bacterial cellulose nanofiber network) and a double-network hydrogel (e.g., a double-network hydrogel including polfacrylamide-methyl propyl sulfonic acid). The artificial cartilage may be coated onto or formed into an implant (e.g., plug). The artificial cartilage may include a surface macroporosity, e.g., 0.1-300 micrometers diameter. Also described herein are methods of forming and methods of using the triple-network hydrogel artificial cartilage materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Benjamin Wiley, Feichen Yang, Kenneth Gall, Jonathan Riboh
  • Patent number: 9731045
    Abstract: A polymer is composed of a linear chain acrylate and a multi-functional acrylate cross-linker. The polymerized composition exhibits a transition at a temperature between about 34° C. and about 50° C. The polymerized composition exhibits shape memory effects. In one embodiment, the linear chain is tert-butyl acrylate and the crosslinker is polyethylene glycol dimethacrylate. The resultant shape memory polymers may be used in medical devices to provide devices with different shapes for pre and post implantation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
    Inventors: Kenneth Gall, Christopher Yakacki
  • Patent number: 8952634
    Abstract: A synchrocyclotron comprises a resonant circuit that includes electrodes having a gap therebetween across the magnetic field. An oscillating voltage input, having a variable amplitude and frequency determined by a programmable digital waveform generator generates an oscillating electric field across the gap. The synchrocyclotron can include a variable capacitor in circuit with the electrodes to vary the resonant frequency. The synchrocyclotron can further include an injection electrode and an extraction electrode having voltages controlled by the programmable digital waveform generator. The synchrocyclotron can further include a beam monitor. The synchrocyclotron can detect resonant conditions in the resonant circuit by measuring the voltage and or current in the resonant circuit, driven by the input voltage, and adjust the capacitance of the variable capacitor or the frequency of the input voltage to maintain the resonant conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Mevion Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Sliski, Kenneth Gall
  • Patent number: 8916843
    Abstract: A system includes a patient support and an outer gantry on which an accelerator is mounted to enable the accelerator to move through a range of positions around a patient on the patient support. The accelerator is configured to produce a proton or ion beam having an energy level sufficient to reach a target in the patient. An inner gantry includes an aperture for directing the proton or ion beam towards the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Mevion Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Gall, Stanley Rosenthal, Gordon Row, Michael Ahearn
  • Patent number: 8907311
    Abstract: A system includes a patient support and an outer gantry on which an accelerator is mounted to enable the accelerator to move through a range of positions around a patient on the patient support. The accelerator is configured to produce a proton or ion beam having an energy level sufficient to reach a target in the patient. An inner gantry includes a robotic arm capable of directing an aperture for directing the proton or ion beam towards the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Mevion Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Gall, Stanley Rosenthal, Gordon Row, Michael Ahearn
  • Patent number: 8871268
    Abstract: Methods of manufacturing a three-dimensional, biodegradable, thermoset polymeric network composition having desirable degradation and mechanical properties, comprising a macromer component cross-linked with a monofunctional acrylate-containing component. The macromer component can comprise a diacrylate-containing component polymerized with an amine-containing component, wherein the molar ratio of the diacrylate-containing component to the amine-containing component is greater than or equal to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignees: Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Emory University
    Inventors: David Safranski, Kenneth Gall, W. Robert Taylor, Daiana Weiss
  • Publication number: 20140121295
    Abstract: A polymer is composed of a linear chain acrylate and a multi-functional acrylate cross-linker. The polymerized composition exhibits a transition at a temperature between about 34° C. and about 50° C. The polymerized composition exhibits shape memory effects. In one embodiment, the linear chain is tert-butyl acrylate and the crosslinker is polyethylene glycol dimethacrylate. The resultant shape memory polymers may be used in medical devices to provide devices with different shapes for pre and post implantation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: The Regents of the University of Colorado, a Body Corporate
    Inventors: Kenneth Gall, Christopher Yakacki
  • Patent number: 8581523
    Abstract: A synchrocyclotron includes magnetic structures to provide a magnetic field to a cavity, a particle source to provide a plasma column to the cavity, where the particle source has a housing to hold the plasma column, and where the housing is interrupted at an acceleration region to expose the plasma column, and a voltage source to provide a radio frequency (RF) voltage to the cavity to accelerate particles from the plasma column at the acceleration region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Mevion Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Gall, Gerrit Townsend Zwart
  • Patent number: 8466635
    Abstract: A synchrocyclotron comprises a resonant circuit that includes electrodes having a gap therebetween across the magnetic field. An oscillating voltage input, having a variable amplitude and frequency determined by a programmable digital waveform generator generates an oscillating electric field across the gap. The synchrocyclotron can include a variable capacitor in circuit with the electrodes to vary the resonant frequency. The synchrocyclotron can further include an injection electrode and an extraction electrode having voltages controlled by the programmable digital waveform generator. The synchrocyclotron can further include a beam monitor. The synchrocyclotron can detect resonant conditions in the resonant circuit by measuring the voltage and or current in the resonant circuit, driven by the input voltage, and adjust the capacitance of the variable capacitor or the frequency of the input voltage to maintain the resonant conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Mevion Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Sliski, Kenneth Gall
  • Publication number: 20130127375
    Abstract: A synchrocyclotron includes a resonant circuit that includes electrodes having a gap there between across the magnetic field. An oscillating voltage input, having a variable amplitude and frequency determined by a programmable digital waveform generator generates an oscillating electric field across the gap. The synchrocyclotron can include a variable capacitor in circuit with the electrodes to vary the resonant frequency. The synchrocyclotron can further include an injection electrode and an extraction electrode having voltages controlled by the programmable digital waveform generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Inventors: Alan Sliski, Kenneth Gall
  • Publication number: 20130131424
    Abstract: Interposing a programmable path length of one or more materials into a particle beam modulates scattering angle and beam range in a predetermined manner to create a predetermined spread out Bragg peak at a predetermined range. Materials can be “low Z” and “high Z” materials that include fluids. A “high Z” and, independently, a “low Z” reservoir, arranged in series, can be used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Inventors: Alan Sliski, Kenneth Gall
  • Publication number: 20130053616
    Abstract: A system includes a patient support and an outer gantry on which an accelerator is mounted to enable the accelerator to move through a range of positions around a patient on the patient support. The accelerator is configured to produce a proton or ion beam having an energy level sufficient to reach a target in the patient. An inner gantry includes an aperture for directing the proton or ion beam towards the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Kenneth Gall, Stanley Rosenthal, Gordon Row, Michael Ahearn
  • Patent number: 8344340
    Abstract: A system includes a patient support and an outer gantry on which an accelerator is mounted to enable the accelerator to move through a range of positions around a patient on the patient support. The accelerator is configured to produce a proton or ion beam having an energy level sufficient to reach a target in the patient. An inner gantry includes an aperture for directing the proton or ion beam towards the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Mevion Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Gall, Stanley Rosenthal, Gordon Row, Michael Ahearn
  • Publication number: 20120322895
    Abstract: Methods of manufacturing a three-dimensional, biodegradable, thermoset polymeric network composition having desirable degradation and mechanical properties, comprising a macromer component cross-linked with a monofunctional acrylate-containing component. The macromer component can comprise a diacrylate-containing component polymerized with an amine-containing component, wherein the molar ratio of the diacrylate-containing component to the amine-containing component is greater than or equal to 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicants: Emory University, Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: David Safranski, Kenneth Gall, W. Robert Taylor, Daiana Weiss
  • Patent number: 8299191
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are tunable shape memory polymers (SMP's) and methods for manufacturing the disclosed SMP's.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corp.
    Inventors: Walter E. Voit, Taylor Ware, Kenneth Gall
  • Publication number: 20120126140
    Abstract: A system includes a patient support and an outer gantry on which an accelerator is mounted to enable the accelerator to move through a range of positions around a patient on the patient support. The accelerator is configured to produce a proton or ion beam having an energy level sufficient to reach a target in the patient. An inner gantry includes a robotic arm capable of directing an aperture for directing the proton or ion beam towards the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventors: Kenneth Gall, Stanley Rosenthal, Gordon Row, Michael Ahearn
  • Patent number: 8111024
    Abstract: A synchrocyclotron comprises a resonant circuit that includes electrodes having a gap therebetween across the magnetic field. An oscillating voltage input, having a variable amplitude and frequency determined by a programmable digital waveform generator generates an oscillating electric field across the gap. The synchrocyclotron can include a variable capacitor in circuit with the electrodes to vary the resonant frequency. The synchrocyclotron can further include an injection electrode and an extraction electrode having voltages controlled by the programmable digital waveform generator. The synchrocyclotron can further include a beam monitor. The synchrocyclotron can detect resonant conditions in the resonant circuit by measuring the voltage and or current in the resonant circuit, driven by the input voltage, and adjust the capacitance of the variable capacitor or the frequency of the input voltage to maintain the resonant conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Mevion Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Sliski, Kenneth Gall
  • Publication number: 20110092652
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are tunable shape memory polymers (SMP's) and methods for manufacturing the disclosed SMP's.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventors: Walter E. Voit, Taylor Ware, Kenneth Gall
  • Patent number: RE48047
    Abstract: A synchrocyclotron comprises includes a resonant circuit that includes electrodes having a gap therebetween across the magnetic field. An oscillating voltage input, having a variable amplitude and frequency determined by a programmable digital waveform generator generates an oscillating electric field across the gap. The synchrocyclotron can include a variable capacitor in circuit with the electrodes to vary the resonant frequency. The synchrocyclotron can further include an injection electrode and an extraction electrode having voltages controlled by the programmable digital waveform generator. The synchrocyclotron can further include a beam monitor. The synchrocyclotron can detect resonant conditions in the resonant circuit by measuring the voltage and or and/or current in the resonant circuit, driven by the input voltage, and adjust the capacitance of the variable capacitor or the frequency of the input voltage to maintain the resonant conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Mevion Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Sliski, Kenneth Gall