Patents by Inventor Kevin L. Nickels

Kevin L. Nickels 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).

  • Method and apparatus for treating a vertebral body
    Patent number: 7931689
    Abstract: An implantable container is used to stabilize or restore height in a vertebral body. After insertion the container is filled with a bone filler material such as bone cement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Spineology Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Hochschuler, Wesley D. Johnson, Kevin L. Nickels, Thomas R. Hektner, Larry Wales, Tyler Lipschults
  • Method and apparatus for treating a vertebral body
    Publication number: 20040215344
    Abstract: An implantable container is used to stabilize or restore height in a vertebral body. After insertion the container is filled with a bone filler material such as bone cement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2004
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Inventors: Stephen Hochschuler, Wesley Johnson, Kevin L. Nickels, Thomas R. Hektner, Larry Wales, Tyler Lipschultz
  • Method and apparatus for treating a vertebral body
    Publication number: 20040215343
    Abstract: An implantable container is used to stabilize or restore height in a vertebral body. After insertion the container is filled with a bone filler material such as bone cement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2004
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Inventors: Stephen Hochschuler, Wesley Johnson, Kevin L. Nickels, Thomas R. Hektner, Larry Wales, Tyler Lipschultz
  • Method and apparatus for treating a vertebral body
    Patent number: 6740093
    Abstract: An implantable container is used to stabilize or restore height in a vertebral body. After insertion the container is filled with a bone filler material such as bone cement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Inventors: Stephen Hochschuler, Wesley Johnson, Kevin L. Nickels, Thomas R. Hektner, Larry Wales, Tyler Lipschultz
  • Method and apparatus for treating a vertebral body
    Publication number: 20020058947
    Abstract: An implantable container is used to stabilize or restore height in a vertebral body. After insertion the container is filled with a bone filler material such as bone cement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2001
    Publication date: May 16, 2002
    Inventors: Stephen Hochschuler, Wesley Johnson, Kevin L. Nickels, Thomas R. Hektner, Larry Wales, Tyler Lipschultz
  • Flexible fluidic force generator
    Patent number: 6237602
    Abstract: An force generator includes an elongate force generator body that has a longitudinal dimension and has a fluid chamber defined therein. The force generator body exhibits a dimensional extension responsive to an increase in fluid in the fluid chamber and a dimensional retraction responsive to a decrease in fluid in the fluid chamber. A restraint apparatus channels the dimensional extension/retraction into the longitudinal dimension and restrains dimensional extension in a dimension transverse thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Kinesis Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin L. Nickels, Matthew J. Dunfee, David A. Lung, Roy A. Facklam, William A. Funk, Francis C. Peterson