Patents by Inventor Mark A. Bollinger
Mark A. Bollinger 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).
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Publication number: 20180168822Abstract: An acetabular device includes a patient-specific acetabular alignment guide including a bone engagement surface. The bone engagement surface has a first portion configured and shaped to be conforming and complementary to an acetabular rim surface and a second portion configured and shaped to be conforming and complementary to a periacetabular area of an acetabulum of a patient. The acetabular alignment guide includes a plurality of guiding formations extending through the second portion for guiding a plurality of alignment pins therethrough. The bone engagement surface and the plurality of guiding formations are prepared from a three-dimensional model of the acetabulum of the specific patient reconstructed pre-operatively from a scan of the patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2018Publication date: June 21, 2018Inventors: John R. White, Lance Dean Perry, Aaron P. Smith, Jason D. Meridew, Bryan Morrison, W. Jason Slone, Tyler D. Witt, Mark A. Bollinger, Robert Metzger
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Patent number: 9913734Abstract: An acetabular device includes a patient-specific acetabular alignment guide including a bone engagement surface. The bone engagement surface has a first portion configured and shaped to be conforming and complementary to an acetabular rim surface and a second portion configured and shaped to be conforming and complementary to a periacetabular area of an acetabulum of a patient. The acetabular alignment guide includes a plurality of guiding formations extending through the second portion for guiding a plurality of alignment pins therethrough. The bone engagement surface and the plurality of guiding formations are prepared from a three-dimensional model of the acetabulum of the specific patient reconstructed pre-operatively from a scan of the patient.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2016Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: Biomet Manufacturing, LLCInventors: John R. White, Lance Dean Perry, Aaron P. Smith, Jason D. Meridew, Bryan Morrison, W. Jason Slone, Tyler D. Witt, Mark A. Bollinger, Robert Metzger
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Patent number: 9744047Abstract: Disclosed is an orthopedic implant that includes an anchor, a bore, and a compressible and expandable mesh. The anchor is configured to secure the implant at an implantation site and defines a longitudinal axis. The bore is defined by the anchor and extends along the longitudinal axis. The compressible and expandable mesh is aligned along the longitudinal axis and defines a plurality of openings. The mesh is configured to compress along the longitudinal axis and expand from the longitudinal axis to engage surrounding bone or tissue at the implantation site to secure the implant at the implantation site.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2015Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Biomet Manufacturing, LLCInventors: Jason D. Meridew, John R. White, Mark A. Bollinger, W. Jason Slone, Kirk J. Bailey, Jon C. Serbousek
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Publication number: 20170189189Abstract: Disclosed is an orthopedic implant that includes an anchor, a bore, and a compressible and expandable mesh. The anchor is configured to secure the implant at an implantation site and defines a longitudinal axis. The bore is defined by the anchor and extends along the longitudinal axis. The compressible and expandable mesh is aligned along the longitudinal axis and defines a plurality of openings. The mesh is configured to compress along the longitudinal axis and expand from the longitudinal axis to engage surrounding bone or tissue at the implantation site to secure the implant at the implantation site.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2015Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: Jason D. MERIDEW, John R. WHITE, Mark A. BOLLINGER, W. Jason SLONE, Kirk J. BAILEY, Jon C. SERBOUSEK
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Patent number: 9597201Abstract: An orthopedic device includes a patient-specific acetabular guide that can be used for preparing an acetabulum of a patient to receive an acetabular implant. The acetabular guide has a body with an outer three-dimensional surface configured to match an acetabulum of a specific patient's hip joint designed from data of the patient's hip joint. The acetabular guide can further include a peripheral annular rim.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2015Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Biomet Manufacturing, LLCInventor: Mark A. Bollinger
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Publication number: 20170000626Abstract: An acetabular device includes a patient-specific acetabular alignment guide including a bone engagement surface. The bone engagement surface has a first portion configured and shaped to be conforming and complementary to an acetabular rim surface and a second portion configured and shaped to be conforming and complementary to a periacetabular area of an acetabulum of a patient. The acetabular alignment guide includes a plurality of guiding formations extending through the second portion for guiding a plurality of alignment pins therethrough. The bone engagement surface and the plurality of guiding formations are prepared from a three-dimensional model of the acetabulum of the specific patient reconstructed pre-operatively from a scan of the patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2016Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventors: John R. White, Lance Dean Perry, Aaron P. Smith, Jason D. Meridew, Bryan Morrison, William Jason Slone, Tyler D. Witt, Mark A. Bollinger, Robert Metzger
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Patent number: 9480580Abstract: A method for inserting an acetabular implant into the acetabulum of a patient. The method includes engaging a patient-specific surface of acetabular alignment guide to a complementary rim surface and periacetabular area of a patient. A plurality of alignment pins are inserted through corresponding alignment apertures of the acetabular alignment guide and into the periacetabular area of the patient. The acetabular alignment guide is removed without removing the alignment pins from the patient. An alignment adapter is coupled to an acetabular inserter over the alignment pins and an acetabular implant is implanted using the acetabular inserter.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2013Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Biomet Manufacturing, LLCInventors: John R. White, Lance D. Perry, Aaron P. Smith, Jason D. Meridew, Bryan Morrison, W. Jason Slone, Tyler D. Witt, Mark A. Bollinger, Robert Metzger
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Publication number: 20160177240Abstract: The invention provides enzyme granules, comprising a fluorescent whitening agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2014Publication date: June 23, 2016Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Mark Bollinger, Carsten Jacobsen, Lars Jacob Rasmussen, Lars Johansen, Ole Simonsen, Huai Zhou
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Publication number: 20160008144Abstract: An orthopedic device includes a patient-specific acetabular guide that can be used for preparing an acetabulum of a patient to receive an acetabular implant. The acetabular guide has a body with an outer three-dimensional surface configured to match an acetabulum of a specific patient's hip joint designed from data of the patient's hip joint. The acetabular guide can further include a peripheral annular rim.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2015Publication date: January 14, 2016Inventor: Mark A. Bollinger
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Patent number: 9204977Abstract: An orthopedic device includes a patient-specific acetabular guide that can be used for preparing an acetabulum of a patient to receive an acetabular implant. The acetabular guide has a body with an outer three-dimensional surface configured to match an acetabulum of a specific patient's hip joint designed from data of the patient's hip joint. The acetabular guide can further include a peripheral annular rim.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2013Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Biomet Manufacturing, LLCInventor: Mark A. Bollinger
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Publication number: 20150238319Abstract: Disclosed is an orthopedic implant that includes an anchor, a bore, and a compressible and expandable mesh. The anchor is configured to secure the implant at an implantation site and defines a longitudinal axis. The bore is defined by the anchor and extends along the longitudinal axis. The compressible and expandable mesh is aligned along the longitudinal axis and defines a plurality of openings. The mesh is configured to compress along the longitudinal axis and expand from the longitudinal axis to engage surrounding bone or tissue at the implantation site to secure the implant at the implantation site.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2015Publication date: August 27, 2015Inventors: Jason D. MERIDEW, John R. WHITE, Mark A. BOLLINGER, W. Jason SLONE, Kirk J. BAILEY, Jon C. SERBOUSEK
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Patent number: 9060788Abstract: An orthopedic device includes a patient-specific acetabular guide that can be used for preparing an acetabulum of a patient to receive an acetabular implant. The acetabular guide has a dome-shaped body with a peripheral annular rim and an outer three-dimensional surface configured to match an acetabulum of a specific patient's hip joint from three-dimensional medical images of the patient's hip joint. A patient-specific registration guide is removably attached to the peripheral rim and has a longitudinal bore defining a patient-specific alignment axis with an alignment orientation configured for guiding an acetabular implant for the patient. The registration guide has a patient-specific undersurface configured to mate with a corresponding surface of periacetabular surface of the acetabulum of the patient.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2012Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Biomet Manufacturing, LLCInventor: Mark A. Bollinger
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Patent number: 8968415Abstract: Disclosed is an orthopedic implant that includes an anchor, a bore, and a compressible and expandable mesh. The anchor is configured to secure the implant at an implantation site and defines a longitudinal axis. The bore is defined by the anchor and extends along the longitudinal axis. The compressible and expandable mesh is aligned along the longitudinal axis and defines a plurality of openings. The mesh is configured to compress along the longitudinal axis and expand from the longitudinal axis to engage surrounding bone or tissue at the implantation site to secure the implant at the implantation site.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2013Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Biomet Manufacturing, LLCInventors: Jason D. Meridew, John R. White, Mark A. Bollinger, W. Jason Slone, Kirk J. Bailey, Jon C. Serbousek
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Patent number: 8876909Abstract: A method for centering a stem of an implant at an implantation site. The method includes implanting at the implantation site the implant having a sleeve rigidly mounted to the stem of the implant, the stem extends through an interior area of the sleeve. The method further includes compressing the sleeve by applying force to the sleeve to expand a mesh portion of the sleeve outward from the stem and into engagement with sidewalls of the implantation site to thereby center the stem at the implantation site.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2013Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Biomet Manufacturing, LLCInventors: Jason D. Meridew, John R. White, Mark A. Bollinger
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Publication number: 20140163565Abstract: An orthopedic device includes a patient-specific acetabular guide that can be used for preparing an acetabulum of a patient to receive an acetabular implant. The acetabular guide has a body with an outer three-dimensional surface configured to match an acetabulum of a specific patient's hip joint designed from data of the patient's hip joint. The acetabular guide can further include a peripheral annular rim.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2013Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: BIOMET MANUFACTURING CORPORATIONInventor: Mark A. BOLLINGER
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Publication number: 20140163564Abstract: An orthopedic device includes a patient-specific acetabular guide that can be used for preparing an acetabulum of a patient to receive an acetabular implant. The acetabular guide has a dome-shaped body with a peripheral annular rim and an outer three-dimensional surface configured to match an acetabulum of a specific patient's hip joint from three-dimensional medical images of the patient's hip joint. A patient-specific registration guide is removably attached to the peripheral rim and has a longitudinal bore defining a patient-specific alignment axis with an alignment orientation configured for guiding an acetabular implant for the patient. The registration guide has a patient-specific undersurface configured to mate with a corresponding surface of periacetabular surface of the acetabulum of the patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2012Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: BIOMET MANUFACTURING CORPORATIONInventor: Mark A. BOLLINGER
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Publication number: 20140114429Abstract: An acetabular shell assembly according to the principles of the present disclosure includes a substrate and a screw hole plug. The substrate can have an inner surface, an outer surface, and a screw hole extending through the inner and outer surfaces and configured to receive a screw to fix the substrate to bone within an acetabulum. The screw hole plug can be configured to be selectively retained relative to the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: BIOMET MANUFACTURING, LLCInventors: W. Jason SLONE, Margaret KELLY, Aaron P. SMITH, Jason D. MERIDEW, Austen DAVENPORT, Paige SCOTT, Randi HOLDERBAUM, Jason M. ENDSLEY, Mark A. BOLLINGER
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Patent number: 8696757Abstract: A prosthetic device for replacement of a first pelvic portion of a pelvis of a patient opposite to a second pelvic portion relative to a median plane includes an acetabular component a flange component and a pubis component. The acetabular component has a first connecting portion and a second connecting portion at an angle relative to the first connecting portion, the angle selected for a corresponding anatomy of the patient. The flange component is coupled to the first connecting portion and configured to attach to a healthy pelvic portion on a same side of the median plane from the first pelvic portion. The pubis component is connected to the second connecting portion of the acetabular component and having a clamping portion configured to attach to a healthy pubis bone on an opposite side of the median plane from the first pelvic portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Biomet Manufacturing, LLCInventors: David R. Brown, John R. White, Mark A. Bollinger, Brian M. May
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Publication number: 20140094816Abstract: A method for inserting an acetabular implant into the acetabulum of a patient. The method includes engaging a patient-specific surface of acetabular alignment guide to a complementary rim surface and periacetabular area of a patient. A plurality of alignment pins are inserted through corresponding alignment apertures of the acetabular alignment guide and into the periacetabular area of the patient. The acetabular alignment guide is removed without removing the alignment pins from the patient. An alignment adapter is coupled to an acetabular inserter over the alignment pins and an acetabular implant is implanted using the acetabular inserter.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: Biomet Manufacturing, LLCInventors: John R. WHITE, Lance D. PERRY, Aaron P. SMITH, Jason D. MERIDEW, Bryan MORRISON, W. Jason SLONE, Tyler D. WITT, Mark A. BOLLINGER, Robert METZGER
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Publication number: 20140074251Abstract: A method for centering a stem of an implant at an implantation site. The method includes implanting at the implantation site the implant having a sleeve rigidly mounted to the stem of the implant, the stem extends through an interior area of the sleeve. The method further includes compressing the sleeve by applying force to the sleeve to expand a mesh portion of the sleeve outward from the stem and into engagement with sidewalls of the implantation site to thereby center the stem at the implantation site.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: Biomet Manufacturing, LLCInventors: Jason D. MERIDEW, John R. WHITE, Mark A. BOLLINGER