Patents by Inventor Lisa Hughes

Lisa Hughes 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).

  • Patent number: 8642065
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes an implant for improving bone growth including an osteoconductive scaffold and an osteoinductive small molecule. The osteoconductive scaffold can further include a polymeric binder. The implant can also include an osteogenic material to provide a viable cell population to assist the bone repair and remodeling. Also disclosed is a system for forming an implant for improving bone growth, as well as methods for forming the implant according to the disclosure, in addition to methods of therapeutic use of the implant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, LLC
    Inventors: Meredith Hans Moore, Doug Buechter, Melissa Brown, Lisa Hughes, Stephen Hornsby
  • Publication number: 20120219599
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes an implant for improving bone growth including an osteoconductive scaffold and an osteoinductive small molecule. The osteoconductive scaffold can further include a polymeric binder. The implant can also include an osteogenic material to provide a viable cell population to assist the bone repair and remodeling. Also disclosed is a system for forming an implant for improving bone growth, as well as methods for forming the implant according to the disclosure, in addition to methods of therapeutic use of the implant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Inventors: Meredith Hans Moore, Doug Buechter, Melissa Brown, Lisa Hughes, Stephen Hornsby
  • Publication number: 20020029984
    Abstract: A new and improved toilet seat wipe is disclosed that will allow a user to effectively clean and sanitize a toilet seat before use. The toilet seat wipe would measure approximately four inches by six inches and would be impregnated with a disinfecting cleaning solution. It would be used to wipe any surface in a public restroom, especially the toilet seat, and then flushed away.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2001
    Publication date: March 14, 2002
    Inventor: Lisa Hughes
  • Patent number: 4286095
    Abstract: A 4-phenyl piperidine having the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a straight chain lower alkyl group; R.sub.2 is --COCH.sub.3, --COC.sub.2 H.sub.5 or ##STR2## R.sub.3 is --OCOCH.sub.3, --OCOC.sub.2 H.sub.5, --OCO -cycloalkyl, or --OCOC.sub.6 H.sub.4 --Z; wherein Z is hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy or chlorine, and X is oxygen: or an addition salt thereof with a pharmaceutically acceptable organic acid or inorganic acid. The compounds have have found to have, inter alia, stimulatory effects on the central nervous system which is indicative of their use as antidepressants in humans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1981
    Assignee: Canada Packers Inc.
    Inventors: Rudolf Kubela, Philip D. Edwards, Lisa A. Hughes
  • Patent number: D398665
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Inventor: Lisa Hughes