Patents by Inventor Robert M. Scribner

Robert M. Scribner 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: 20230338296
    Abstract: Methods for treating cutaneous conditions and dermatoses such as disorders of the skin, subcutaneous tissues, mucous membranes, poorly vascularized tissues and/or other tissue disorders, including erosions, fissures, transient and/or chronic sores, burns, wounds, ulcers, lesions and infections. In particular embodiments, treatments include methods for improving skin and related tissue healing and repair using oxygen microbubbles (OMBs) and/or various formulations and/or compounds incorporating OMBs in combination with various other medicaments and/or tissue implants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Paul MOUNTFORD, Mark BORDEN, Robert T. Scribner, Robert M. Scribner
  • Patent number: 11597576
    Abstract: Disclosed are improved devices, systems and methods for storing, protecting and/or dispensing/delivering products that are particularly sensitive to pressure changes, alterations in gas distributions and/or partial pressures, physical impacts, temperature changes and/or other variations in the ambient environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: RESPIROGEN, INC.
    Inventors: Robert T Scribner, Paul A Mountford, Robert M Scribner
  • Publication number: 20220040393
    Abstract: Systems and methods for the removal of carbon dioxide from circulating blood via the use of microbubbles within a body cavity, optionally including the simultaneous provision of oxygen to the circulatory system. Through placement of microbubbles within a body cavity and the use of a carbon dioxide scavenging catheter, carbon dioxide and/or oxygen exchange may occur. Overall improvement in extending survival rate time during emergency situations caused by pulmonary or similar ventilation restricting injury and/or failure may be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventor: Robert M. SCRIBNER
  • Publication number: 20210253326
    Abstract: Disclosed are improved devices, systems and methods for storing, protecting and/or dispensing/delivering products that are particularly sensitive to pressure changes, alterations in gas distributions and/or partial pressures, physical impacts, temperature changes and/or other variations in the ambient environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Robert T SCRIBNER, Paul A MOUNTFORD, Robert M Scribner
  • Publication number: 20210137837
    Abstract: The invention relates to an improved oxygen microbubble (OMB)-and-Cannabidiol (CBD) formulation that can be administered for medical and/or therapeutic purposes in any entry route and delivery method to improve bioavailability and half-life within the body. The dual CBD-OMB emulsion/formulation described herein may be a product capable of simultaneously delivering oxygen and CBD to a target tissue of interest to also further enhance blood flow to the target tissue site potentially increasing the uptake of CBD by the anatomy and thereby enhancing CBD's bioavailability in humans.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Paul A MOUNTFORD, Robert M SCRIBNER, Robert T SCRIBNER, Mark A. BORDEN
  • Publication number: 20210100738
    Abstract: Disclosed are improved devices, systems and methods of delivering oxygen and/or other therapeutic substances to a living organism, such as a mammal and/or human patient, by delivering and/or circulating microbubble carriers within existing anatomical passages of the organism that are accessible via external body orifices, such as portions of the organism's digestive and/or excretory tracts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Robert M. Scribner, Paul MOUNTFORD, Mark BORDEN, Robert T. Scribner
  • Publication number: 20200297649
    Abstract: Methods for treating cutaneous conditions and dermatoses such as disorders of the skin, subcutaneous tissues, mucous membranes, poorly vascularized tissues and/or other tissue disorders, including erosions, fissures, transient and/or chronic sores, burns, wounds, ulcers, lesions and infections. In particular embodiments, treatments include methods for improving skin and related tissue healing and repair using oxygen microbubbles (OMBs) and/or various formulations and/or compounds incorporating OMBs in combination with various other medicaments and/or tissue implants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Paul MOUNTFORD, Mark BORDEN, Robert T. Scribner, Robert M. Scribner
  • Patent number: 9872776
    Abstract: Prostheses, systems, and methods are provided for replacement of natural facet joints between adjacent vertebrae using polyaxial attachment mechanisms for securing the prostheses to the vertebrae. A cephalad prosthesis attached to a superior adjacent vertebra replaces the inferior half of a natural facet joint. A caudal prosthesis attached to an inferior adjacent vertebra replaces the superior half of a natural facet joint. Both the cephalad and caudal prostheses are configured with artificial facet joint structures that include articulating surfaces that cooperate and form an artificial articular configuration. The polyaxial attachment mechanism permits adjustment of the position of the artificial facet joint structure along more than one axis at or after the time the cephalad or caudal prosthesis is attached to a vertebra.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark A Reiley, David T. Stinson, Robert M. Scribner, Leonard J. Tokish
  • Patent number: 9326806
    Abstract: A device for treating vertebral bone including a releasably closed, removable filling member which can be placed within a plane separating superior and inferior portions of a vertebral body and oriented to promote its stabilization and realignment upon expansion of the filling member along the plane via injection of filler material, while minimally compacting bone or creating unsupported voids within the interior of the vertebral body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Crosstrees Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Kwan Ku Lin, Philip S. Yuan, Robert M. Scribner
  • Publication number: 20150238323
    Abstract: Prostheses, systems, and methods are provided for replacement of natural facet joints between adjacent vertebrae using polyaxial attachment mechanisms for securing the prostheses to the vertebrae. A cephalad prosthesis attached to a superior adjacent vertebra replaces the inferior half of a natural facet joint. A caudal prosthesis attached to an inferior adjacent vertebra replaces the superior half of a natural facet joint. Both the cephalad and caudal prostheses are configured with artificial facet joint structures that include articulating surfaces that cooperate and form an artificial articular configuration. The polyaxial attachment mechanism permits adjustment of the position of the artificial facet joint structure along more than one axis at or after the time the cephalad or caudal prosthesis is attached to a vertebra.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Mark A. Reiley, David T. Stinson, Robert M. Scribner, Leonard J. Tokish
  • Patent number: 9056016
    Abstract: Prostheses, systems, and methods are provided for replacement of natural facet joints between adjacent vertebrae using polyaxial attachment mechanisms for securing the prostheses to the vertebrae. A cephalad prosthesis attached to a superior adjacent vertebra replaces the inferior half of a natural facet joint. A caudal prosthesis attached to an inferior adjacent vertebra replaces the superior half of a natural facet joint. Both the cephalad and caudal prostheses are configured with artificial facet joint structures that include articulating surfaces that cooperate and form an artificial articular configuration. The polyaxial attachment mechanism permits adjustment of the position of the artificial facet joint structure along more than one axis at or after the time the cephalad or caudal prosthesis is attached to a vertebra.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: GMEDELAWARE 2 LLC
    Inventors: Mark A. Reiley, David T. Stinson, Robert M. Scribner, Leonard J. Tokish, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20140058432
    Abstract: A cavity creating device having a cavity creating axis is introduced through a percutaneous access path into a cancellous bone volume, e.g., within a vertebral body. The cavity creating device is manipulated to form a cavity in the cancellous bone volume. The manipulation includes deflecting the cavity creating device along the cavity creating axis relative to the axis of the access path. A material, such as bone cement, can be conveyed into the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: KYPHON SARL
    Inventors: Robert M. Scribner, Michael L. Rea
  • Patent number: 8523907
    Abstract: Cephalad and caudal vertebral facet joint prostheses and methods of use are provided. The cephalad prostheses are adapted and configured to be attached to a lamina portion of a vertebra without blocking a pedicle portion of the cephalad vertebra. In some embodiments, the prosthesis is attached with a non-invasive support member, such as a clamp. In other embodiments, a translaminar screw may be used for additional fixation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: GMEDelaware 2 LLC
    Inventors: David Stinson, Lawrence R. Jones, Robert M. Scribner, Mark A. Reiley
  • Publication number: 20130197534
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a body portion having a sidewall with one or more threads and defining a lumen. The apparatus includes a brace portion having a sidewall that defines a lumen that is fluidically coupled to the lumen of the body portion. The sidewall of the brace portion has one or more threads that are configured to matingly couple to the threads of the body portion. The brace portion has a contact surface configured to contact a bodily tissue of a patient when a cannula is disposed within the lumen of the body portion and the lumen of the brace portion. The brace portion and the body portion are collectively configured to maintain a position of the cannula within a body of the patient relative to the bodily tissue when the cannula is disposed within the lumen of the brace portion and the lumen of the body portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: Crosstrees Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Lauderbaugh, Robert M. Scribner, Dan R. Hollowell, Richard W. Layne, Robert T. Scribner
  • Patent number: 8454620
    Abstract: An elongated shaft is sized and configured to establish an access path to bone having an interior volume occupied, at least in part, by cancellous bone. The elongated shaft includes a generally closed distal end portion and a side opening spaced from the closed distal end. A first tool is sized and configured to be selectively inserted into the shaft and selectively removed from the shaft. The tool includes a region that, when the first tool is inserted into the shaft, is capable of being aligned with and advanced through the side opening to project outside the side opening and contact cancellous bone. A second tool is sized and configured, upon removal of the first tool from the shaft, to introduce into the shaft a bone filling material for discharge through the side opening into the cancellous bone contacted by the first tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Kyphon Sarl
    Inventors: Christopher R. Ralph, Richard W. Layne, Paul M. Sand, Robert M. Scribner, Mark A. Reiley
  • Patent number: 8454663
    Abstract: Systems and methods treat at least two vertebral bodies in a spinal column. The systems and methods make use of first and second tool assemblies operable to treat an interior region of, respectively, a first vertebral body and a second vertebral body in the spinal column. The systems and methods provide directions for operating the first and second tool assemblies to treat the first and second vertebral bodies, at least for a portion of time, concurrently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Kyphon Sarl
    Inventors: Ryan P. Boucher, Mark A. Reiley, Robert M. Scribner, Michael L. Reo
  • Publication number: 20120290009
    Abstract: Prostheses, systems, and methods are provided for replacement of natural facet joints between adjacent vertebrae with vertebral prostheses. A portion of the vertebral prosthesis includes anti-rotation and/or anti-pullout elements to prevent or reduce prosthesis fastener rotation or pull out as a result of torques applied to the prosthesis. Various tools and methods aid the process of surgically adding the vertebral prosthesis to a patient's vertebra.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Inventors: Leonard J. Tokish, JR., Mark T. Charbonneau, Mark A. Reiley, Robert M. Scribner
  • Publication number: 20120265252
    Abstract: Cephalad and caudal vertebral facet joint prostheses and methods of use are provided. The cephalad prostheses are adapted and configured to be attached to a lamina portion of a vertebra without blocking a pedicle portion of the cephalad vertebra. In some embodiments, the prosthesis is attached with a non-invasive support member, such as a clamp. In other embodiments, a translaminar screw may be used for additional fixation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Inventors: David Stinson, Lawrence R. Jones, Robert M. Scribner, Mark A. Reiley
  • Patent number: 8231655
    Abstract: Cephalad and caudal vertebral facet joint prostheses and methods of use are provided. The cephalad prostheses are adapted and configured to be attached to a lamina portion of a vertebra without blocking a pedicle portion of the cephalad vertebra. In some embodiments, the prosthesis is attached with a non-invasive support member, such as a clamp. In other embodiments, a translaminar screw may be used for additional fixation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: GMEDelaware 2 LLC
    Inventors: David Stinson, Lawrence R. Jones, Robert M. Scribner, Mark A. Reiley
  • Patent number: 8187303
    Abstract: Prostheses, systems, and methods are provided for replacement of natural facet joints between adjacent vertebrae with vertebral prostheses. A portion of the vertebral prosthesis includes anti-rotation and/or anti-pullout elements to prevent or reduce prosthesis fastener rotation or pull out as a result of torques applied to the prosthesis. Various tools and methods aid the process of surgically adding the vertebral prosthesis to a patient's vertebra.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: GMEDelaware 2 LLC
    Inventors: Leonard J. Tokish, Jr., Mark T. Charbonneau, Mark A. Reiley, Robert M. Scribner