Patents by Inventor Mark Hedgeland

Mark Hedgeland 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: 12636050
    Abstract: The expandible-extendible intramedullary nail includes a base section. An assembly component is connected to the base section. The assembly component has an inner assembly surface and helical assembly threads formed on the inner assembly surface. A distal rod is connected to the assembly component. A driving nut is connected to the distal rod and assembly component. The driving nut has an outer nut surface and helical nut threads formed on the outer nut surface. The driving nut is rotatable about the longitudinal central axis of the helical nut threads such that the rotation causes helical displacement of the helical nut threads relative to the helical assembly threads. This causes longitudinal displacement of the distal rod relative to the assembly component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Inventors: Zachary Wallace, Mark Hedgeland, Lauren Gray
  • Publication number: 20250339315
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a body, a flexible cannula, and a needle. The needle is resiliently biased to extend along at least one proximal curve through least one proximal curved needle portion. The needle is resiliently biased to extend along at least one distal curve through at least one distal curved needle portion. In another embodiment, an apparatus includes a main body portion including a proximal channel configured to receive a plunger of a syringe, and a stop surface configured to selectively engage the plunger of the syringe to arrest distal advancement of the plunger. The apparatus also includes first and second deflectable beams configured to cooperate with each other to securely grip the barrel of the syringe, and first and second deflectable flanges configured to cooperate with each other to grip the barrel of the syringe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2025
    Publication date: November 6, 2025
    Inventors: Thomas E. Meyer, Chase Wooley, Kirsten Stoner, Justin Creel, Michael Keane, Sergio Camacho, Mark Hedgeland, John Miser, Rory Klingensmith, Peter Meinz
  • Publication number: 20250255652
    Abstract: The expandible-extendible intramedullary nail includes a base section. An assembly component is connected to the base section. The assembly component has an inner assembly surface and helical assembly threads formed on the inner assembly surface. A distal rod is connected to the assembly component. A driving nut is connected to the distal rod and assembly component. The driving nut has an outer nut surface and helical nut threads formed on the outer nut surface. The driving nut is rotatable about the longitudinal central axis of the helical nut threads such that the rotation causes helical displacement of the helical nut threads relative to the helical assembly threads. This causes longitudinal displacement of the distal rod relative to the assembly component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2025
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Applicant: IRF Medical LLC
    Inventors: Zachary Wallace, Mark Hedgeland, Lauren Gray
  • Publication number: 20250255621
    Abstract: Intramedullary nails, systems, and methods. The intramedullary nail may include a generally elongate body extending from a first, distal end to a second, proximal end. The distal end may include one or more openings configured to receive one or more bone anchors that extend transversely through the distal end of the intramedullary nail, and thereby configured to secure the distal end of the nail. The proximal end may also include one or more openings configured to receive one or more bone anchors that extend transversely through the proximal end of the intramedullary nail, and thereby configured to secure the proximal end of the nail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2025
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Inventors: David Machamer, David R. Jansen, Mark Hedgeland, Mark Rossney
  • Publication number: 20250235251
    Abstract: Intramedullary nails, systems, and methods. The intramedullary nail may include a generally elongate body extending from a first, distal end to a second, proximal end. The distal end may include one or more openings configured to receive one or more bone anchors that extend transversely through the distal end intramedullary nail, and thereby configured to secure the distal end of the nail. The proximal end may also include one or more openings configured to receive one or more bone anchors that extend transversely through the proximal end of the intramedullary nail, and thereby configured to secure the proximal end of the nail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2025
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Inventors: Mark Hedgeland, David Machamer, David R. Jansen, Mark Rossney, David J. Rowe, David Laird
  • Publication number: 20250195268
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a body, a flexible cannula, and a needle. The cannula is sized and configured to advance between a sclera and a choroid of a patient's eye. The needle is slidably disposed in the cannula and includes a sharp distal tip. The needle translates relative to the cannula between a proximal position and a distal position. The distal tip is positioned inside the cannula when the needle is in the proximal position. The distal tip is positioned outside the cannula when the needle is in the distal position. The needle is resiliently biased to extend along at least one proximal curve through least one proximal curved needle portion. The needle is resiliently biased to extend along at least one distal curve through at least one distal curved needle portion. The at least one distal curve is different from the at least one proximal curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Thomas E. Meyer, Chase Wooley, Kirsten Stoner, Justin Creel, Michael Keane, Sergio Camacho, Mark Hedgeland, John Miser, Rory Klingensmith
  • Publication number: 20250177202
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a body, and anchoring feature, and a guide feature. The body is sized and configured to be positioned on an eye of a patient. The anchoring feature is configured to secure the body to the eye of the patient. The guide feature is configured to guide a cannula into a scleral incision formed in the eye of the patient along a path that is substantially tangential relative to the eye of the patient. The guide feature is sized and configured to allow the cannula to pivot laterally through a range of angular motion at the scleral incision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2024
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Inventors: Thomas E. Meyer, Mark Hedgeland, Benjamin Ko, Thomas Gernetzke, Olivia Enneking, Eric Kennedy, Robert Roth, Michael Auld, Jacob Schubert, Samuel Ridgley
  • Publication number: 20250169865
    Abstract: Intramedullary nails, aiming guide assemblies, and methods. The aiming guide assembly can include an aiming guide having a collet and a connection bolt configured to engage a connection bolt driver. The connection bolt may be self-retaining and engage with the connection bolt driver in a manner to prevent unintentional disengagement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2024
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Inventors: Mark Hedgeland, Mark Rossney, David R. Jansen
  • Patent number: 12285178
    Abstract: Intramedullary nails, systems, and methods. The intramedullary nail may include a generally elongate body extending from a first, distal end to a second, proximal end. The distal end may include one or more openings configured to receive one or more bone anchors that extend transversely through the distal end of the intramedullary nail, and thereby configured to secure the distal end of the nail. The proximal end may also include one or more openings configured to receive one or more bone anchors that extend transversely through the proximal end of the intramedullary nail, and thereby configured to secure the proximal end of the nail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: David Machamer, David R. Jansen, Mark Hedgeland, Mark Rossney
  • Patent number: 12268430
    Abstract: Intramedullary nails, systems, and methods. The intramedullary nail may include a generally elongate body extending from a first, distal end to a second, proximal end. The distal end may include one or more openings configured to receive one or more bone anchors that extend transversely through the distal end intramedullary nail, and thereby configured to secure the distal end of the nail. The proximal end may also include one or more openings configured to receive one or more bone anchors that extend transversely through the proximal end of the intramedullary nail, and thereby configured to secure the proximal end of the nail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Hedgeland, David Machamer, David R. Jansen, Mark Rossney, David J. Rowe, David Laird
  • Patent number: 12178489
    Abstract: Intramedullary nails, aiming guide assemblies, and methods. The aiming guide assembly can include an aiming guide having a collet and a connection bolt configured to engage a connection bolt driver. The connection bolt may be self-retaining and engage with the connection bolt driver in a manner to prevent unintentional disengagement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Hedgeland, Mark Rossney, David R. Jansen
  • Patent number: 12171688
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a body, and anchoring feature, and a guide feature. The body is sized and configured to be positioned on an eye of a patient. The anchoring feature is configured to secure the body to the eye of the patient. The guide feature is configured to guide a cannula into a scleral incision formed in the eye of the patient along a path that is substantially tangential relative to the eye of the patient. The guide feature is sized and configured to allow the cannula to pivot laterally through a range of angular motion at the scleral incision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas E. Meyer, Mark Hedgeland, Benjamin Ko, Thomas Gernetzke, Olivia Enneking, Eric Kennedy, Robert Roth, Michael Auld, Jacob Schubert, Samuel Ridgley
  • Publication number: 20230390111
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a body, and anchoring feature, and a guide feature. The body is sized and configured to be positioned on an eye of a patient. The anchoring feature is configured to secure the body to the eye of the patient. The guide feature is configured to guide a cannula into a scleral incision formed in the eye of the patient along a path that is substantially tangential relative to the eye of the patient. The guide feature is sized and configured to allow the cannula to pivot laterally through a range of angular motion at the scleral incision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas E. Meyer, Mark Hedgeland, Benjamin Ko, Thomas Gernetzke, Olivia Enneking, Eric Kennedy, Robert Roth, Michael Auld, Jacob Schubert, Samuel Ridgley
  • Patent number: 11730524
    Abstract: Intramedullary nails, aiming guide assemblies, and methods. The aiming guide assembly can include an aiming guide having an elongate proximal handle portion. A generally arcuate distal implant alignment tip connector portion is connected to the proximal handle portion and has a distal implant alignment tip extending along a tip axis parallel to a longitudinal axis of the proximal handle portion. A recon module may be releasably attached to a proximal end of the proximal handle portion. An oblique module may be releasably attached to the distal implant alignment tip portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Hedgeland, Mark Rossney, David R. Jansen
  • Publication number: 20230140303
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a body and a head. The head defines a fluid reservoir. The head includes a distal face and a needle. The distal face is configured to engage an exterior surface of a patient's eye at an anterior region of the patient's eye. The needle is configured to extend distally from the distal face. The needle has a length sufficient to extend through a sclera layer of the patient's eye and thereby position at least a portion of a distal tip of the needle in a suprachoroidal space of the patient's eye at an anterior region of the patient's eye. The needle is in fluid communication with the fluid reservoir such that the needle is operable to deliver fluid from the fluid reservoir into the suprachoroidal space of the patient's eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Mark Hedgeland, Thomas E. Meyer, Justin A. Creel
  • Publication number: 20230038350
    Abstract: Intramedullary nails, systems, and methods. The intramedullary nail may include a generally elongate body extending from a first, distal end to a second, proximal end. The distal end may include one or more openings configured to receive one or more bone anchors that extend transversely through the distal end of the intramedullary nail, and thereby configured to secure the distal end of the nail. The proximal end may also include one or more openings configured to receive one or more bone anchors that extend transversely through the proximal end of the intramedullary nail, and thereby configured to secure the proximal end of the nail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: David Machamer, David R. Jansen, Mark Hedgeland, Mark Rossney
  • Patent number: 11490905
    Abstract: Intramedullary nails, systems, and methods. The intramedullary nail may include a generally elongate body extending from a first, distal end to a second, proximal end. The distal end may include one or more openings configured to receive one or more bone anchors that extend transversely through the distal end of the intramedullary nail, and thereby configured to secure the distal end of the nail. The proximal end may also include one or more openings configured to receive one or more bone anchors that extend transversely through the proximal end of the intramedullary nail, and thereby configured to secure the proximal end of the nail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: David Machamer, David R. Jansen, Mark Hedgeland, Mark Rossney
  • Publication number: 20210353349
    Abstract: Intramedullary nails, aiming guide assemblies, and methods. The aiming guide assembly can include an aiming guide having a collet and a connection bolt configured to engage a connection bolt driver. The connection bolt may be self-retaining and engage with the connection bolt driver in a manner to prevent unintentional disengagement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Mark Hedgeland, Mark Rossney, David R. Jansen
  • Publication number: 20210346077
    Abstract: Intramedullary nails, systems, and methods. The intramedullary nail may include a generally elongate body extending from a first, distal end to a second, proximal end. The distal end may include one or more openings configured to receive one or more bone anchors that extend transversely through the distal end intramedullary nail, and thereby configured to secure the distal end of the nail. The proximal end may also include one or more openings configured to receive one or more bone anchors that extend transversely through the proximal end of the intramedullary nail, and thereby configured to secure the proximal end of the nail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Mark Hedgeland, David Machamer, David R. Jansen, Mark Rossney, David J. Rowe, David Laird
  • Patent number: 11090098
    Abstract: Intramedullary nails, systems, and methods. The intramedullary nail may include a generally elongate body extending from a first, distal end to a second, proximal end. The distal end may include one or more openings configured to receive one or more bone anchors that extend transversely through the distal end intramedullary nail, and thereby configured to secure the distal end of the nail. The proximal end may also include one or more openings configured to receive one or more bone anchors that extend transversely through the proximal end of the intramedullary nail, and thereby configured to secure the proximal end of the nail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Hedgeland, David Machamer, David R. Jansen, Mark Rossney, David J. Rowe, David Laird