Patents by Inventor Rony Thomas

Rony Thomas 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).

  • Devitalization and recellularization of cartilage
    Patent number: 9125743
    Abstract: The present invention is directed toward recellularizing a devitalized cartilage graft with viable recellularizable cells in vivo, in situ, or in vitro to render the tissue vital. The present invention is also directed toward repairing a cartilage defect and implanting a cartilage graft into a human or animal by crafting a cartilage matrix into individual grafts, disinfecting and cleaning the cartilage graft, applying a pretreatment solution to the cartilage graft, removing cellular debris using an extracting solution to produce a devitalized cartilage graft, recellularizing the devitalized cartilage graft, implanting the cartilage graft into the cartilage defect with or without an insertion device, and sealing the implanted cartilage graft with recipient tissue. The devitalized cartilage graft is optionally stored between the removing cellular debris and the recellularizing steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: LifeNet Health
    Inventors: Silvia Sihui Chen, Xiaofei Qin, Jingsong Chen, Lloyd Wolfinbarger, Mark Moore, Rony Thomas, Alyce Linthurst Jones
  • Devitalization and recellularization of cartilage
    Publication number: 20090024229
    Abstract: The present invention is directed toward recellularizing a devitalized cartilage graft with viable recellularizable cells in vivo, in situ, or in vitro to render the tissue vital. The present invention is also directed toward repairing a cartilage defect and implanting a cartilage graft into a human or animal by crafting a cartilage matrix into individual grafts, disinfecting and cleaning the cartilage graft, applying a pretreatment solution to the cartilage graft, removing cellular debris using an extracting solution to produce a devitalized cartilage graft, recellularizing the devitalized cartilage graft, implanting the cartilage graft into the cartilage defect with or without an insertion device, and sealing the implanted cartilage graft with recipient tissue. The devitalized cartilage graft is optionally stored between the removing cellular debris and the recellularizing steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2007
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Inventors: Silvia S. Chen, Xiaofei Qin, Jingsong Chen, Lloyd Wolfinbarger, JR., Mark Moore, Rony Thomas, Alyce Linthurst Jones
  • Integrated and independently controlled transmit only and receive only coil arrays for magnetic resonance systems
    Patent number: 6946840
    Abstract: A MRI array coil includes a plurality of first coils in a receive coil array and a plurality of second coils in a transmit coil array. The receive coil array and the transmit coil array are electrically disjoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Mark Xueming Zou, Labros S. Petropoulos, Joseph Murphy-Boesch, Pei Chan, Rony Thomas
  • Method of forming a magnetic hard disk with elliptical shaped laser bumps
    Patent number: 6299947
    Abstract: A method in accordance with our invention for providing texture bumps on a substrate comprises the step of forming elliptical ridge-shaped bumps on the substrate. In one embodiment, substrate is used in the manufacture of a magnetic disk used in a disk drive. The elliptical bumps cause less vibration of the read-write head than circular bumps. The elliptical bumps also provide reduced friction between the disk and a read-write head during use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: Komag, Inc.
    Inventors: Shoji Suzuki, David Treves, David Vigdor Salamon, Dan Frusescu, Rony Thomas