Patents by Inventor Mason J. Bettenga

Mason J. Bettenga 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).

  • Publication number: 20220409197
    Abstract: A suspension fixation device includes a first fastener assembled to an adjustable loop of suture. The second fastener has a slot configured to allow the second fastener to be assembled to the suture loop once the suture loop has been passed through a drill hole. The second fastener further comprises a suture bridge formed through a post of the fastener for housing the suture loop while the slot is configured to prohibit the suture loop from migrating back out of the suture bridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Smith & Nephew, Inc.
    Inventors: Pascal Boileau, Alexander I. Seidl, Dirk Wunderle, Mason J. Bettenga, Jeffrey Wyman
  • Patent number: 11350952
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to instrumentation that facilitate coracoid-glenoid fixation in Latarjet procedures. For example, a single instrument, a coracoid resection tool, may be provided/utilized to prepare a coracoid bone graft for size, flatness, and hole drilling. A glenoid drill guide may further be provided/utilized that uses sized offsets for placement of the coracoid graft flush with the glenoid. Further embodiments of the disclosure are directed to corresponding methods that employ this instrumentation. For example, a surgeon may employs the coracoid resection tool as a guide to plane the inferior coracoid surface that will serve as the coracoid graft surface. The coracoid resection tool may further guide the placement of coracoid holes along the length of the coracoid and orient the holes approximately perpendicular to the planed coracoid graft surface. For example a proximal coracoid hole may be positioned towards the proximal end (i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.
    Inventors: Mason J. Bettenga, Stephen A. Santangelo, Nikhil N. Verma, Jeffrey Wyman
  • Publication number: 20200390453
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to instrumentation that facilitate coracoid-glenoid fixation in Latarjet procedures. For example, a single instrument, a coracoid resection tool, may be provided/utilized to prepare a coracoid bone graft for size, flatness, and hole drilling. A glenoid drill guide may further be provided/utilized that uses sized offsets for placement of the coracoid graft flush with the glenoid. Further embodiments of the disclosure are directed to corresponding methods that employ this instrumentation. For example, a surgeon may employs the coracoid resection tool as a guide to plane the inferior coracoid surface that will serve as the coracoid graft surface. The coracoid resection tool may further guide the placement of coracoid holes along the length of the coracoid and orient the holes approximately perpendicular to the planed coracoid graft surface. For example a proximal coracoid hole may be positioned towards the proximal end (i.e.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: Smith & Nephew, Inc.
    Inventors: Mason J. Bettenga, Stephen A. Santangelo, Nikhil N. Verma, Jeffrey Wyman
  • Patent number: 10806472
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to instrumentation that facilitate coracoid-glenoid fixation in Latarjet procedures. For example, a single instrument, a coracoid resection tool, may be provided/utilized to prepare a coracoid bone graft for size, flatness, and hole drilling. A glenoid drill guide may further be provided/utilized that uses sized offsets for placement of the coracoid graft flush with the glenoid. Further embodiments of the disclosure are directed to corresponding methods that employ this instrumentation. For example, a surgeon may employs the coracoid resection tool as a guide to plane the inferior coracoid surface that will serve as the coracoid graft surface. The coracoid resection tool may further guide the placement of coracoid holes along the length of the coracoid and orient the holes approximately perpendicular to the planed coracoid graft surface. For example a proximal coracoid hole may be positioned towards the proximal end (i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.
    Inventors: Mason J. Bettenga, Stephen A. Santangelo, Nikhil N. Verma, Jeffrey Wyman
  • Publication number: 20180049757
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to instrumentation that facilitate coracoid-glenoid fixation in Latarjet procedures. For example, a single instrument, a coracoid resection tool, may be provided/utilized to prepare a coracoid bone graft for size, flatness, and hole drilling. A glenoid drill guide may further be provided/utilized that uses sized offsets for placement of the coracoid graft flush with the glenoid. Further embodiments of the disclosure are directed to corresponding methods that employ this instrumentation. For example, a surgeon may employs the coracoid resection tool as a guide to plane the inferior coracoid surface that will serve as the coracoid graft surface. The coracoid resection tool may further guide the placement of coracoid holes along the length of the coracoid and orient the holes approximately perpendicular to the planed coracoid graft surface. For example a proximal coracoid hole may be positioned towards the proximal end (i.e.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicant: Smith & Nephew, Inc.
    Inventors: Mason J. Bettenga, Stephen A. Santangelo, Nikhil N. Verma, Jeffrey Wyman
  • Publication number: 20170164961
    Abstract: A coracoid drill guide including a hollow shaft for passage of a drill sleeve. The shaft is fitted with a cap having a distally-extending finger. A longitudinal axis of the finger is offset from the longitudinal axis of the shaft by a first fixed distance. The shaft is disposed within a first cannulation of sliding and rotating block that has two cannulations at a second fixed distance apart. The drill guide ensures that a first drill hole will always be placed at the first fixed distance from both the distal tip and the lateral edge of the coracoid, and that a second drill hole will always be placed at the first fixed distance from the lateral edge of the coracoid and at the second fixed distance from the first drill hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: Smith & Nephew, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Haberman, Stephen A. Santangelo, Mason J. Bettenga, George S. Athwal