Patents by Inventor Lane Fielding Smith

Lane Fielding Smith 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).

  • Mastopexy stabilization apparatus and method
    Patent number: 7081135
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for mastopexy surgeries correcting a ptosis condition caused by tissue stretching, in the breast as a result of pregnancy, time, aging, and the effects of gravity and athletic activity provide an implant having homogeneously formed connectors extending from inside an implant wall for anchoring to the chest wall or chest muscles of a patient. Embedded reinforcements and anchoring tabs or sutures may be readily oriented along a rib or other defining physiological location in order to provide immediate, permanent, and symmetric installation of implants in a mastopexy reconstruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Inventors: Lane Fielding Smith, Evan Farr Smith
  • Mastopexy stabilization apparatus and method
    Publication number: 20040249457
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for mastopexy surgeries correcting a ptosis condition caused by tissue stretching, in the breast as a result of pregnancy, time, aging, and the effects of gravity and athletic activity provide an implant having homogeneously formed connectors extending from inside an implant wall for anchoring to the chest wall or chest muscles of a patient. Embedded reinforcements and anchoring tabs or sutures may be readily oriented along a rib or other defining physiological location in order to provide immediate, permanent, and symmetric installation of implants in a mastopexy reconstruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventors: Lane Fielding Smith, Evan Farr Smith