Patents by Inventor Mauricio Rodolfo Carrasco

Mauricio Rodolfo Carrasco 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: 20110046673
    Abstract: This invention is directed to an interspinous distraction implant, which is intended to restrict the motion of the vertebrae between themselves, thus improving the mechanical behavior that is altered by the intervertebral disk diseases. The invention is composed of an O-shaped body, which is oval and laminar, and includes two flaps for the implant anchorage and two additional pairs of upper and lower flaps wherein the upper flaps are forward with regard to the lower ones, so that both of them bump simultaneously into the respective vertebral laminae, thus avoiding the rotation of the implant in the transversal axis and positioning its longitudinal axis parallel to the spinous apophysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2010
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: PIXIS S.A
    Inventor: MAURICIO RODOLFO CARRASCO
  • Publication number: 20090093883
    Abstract: This invention consists in an implant to be placed between the lumbar spinous and lumbar-sacral apophysis in order to keep them separated and enable a normal flexion and extension range. The implant is a cuneiform body which frontal end is rounded and higher than the rear end thus forming an open angle towards the frontal part of the implant. It has two supporting surfaces, opposite to the spinous apophysis and having in its most rear end two sharp edges which are opposite to the spine and located transversally to the longitudinal axis of said faces, and wherein said supporting surfaces are confined by two rhomboidal surfaces which major axis is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the implant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Inventor: Mauricio Rodolfo Carrasco
  • Publication number: 20040153160
    Abstract: An implant for vertebral replacement comprised by inner supports to the vertebral plates, vertebral separating means and vertical members for adjusting the implant to the corresponding vertebral faces, wherein the piece of the inner support implant emulates the shape of the cortical tissue area of the vertebral plate thereby forming a frame and leaving the spongy tissue area of the vertebral plate free.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventor: Mauricio Rodolfo Carrasco