Patents by Inventor Samuel Lequette

Samuel Lequette 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: 10624756
    Abstract: Various embodiments comprise an expansible intervertebral implant intended to be implanted in a space between two adjacent vertebrae to at least partly supplant an intervertebral disc, said implant being able to expand along three substantially mutually orthogonal axes so as to comply with the lordosis of the patient while still having increased stability and reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: LDR Medical, S.A.S.
    Inventors: Pierre Bernard, Hervé Chataigner, Craig Chebuhar, Alexander Kirgis, Ross Sherban, Samuel Lequette, Emmanuel Bougere, Aymeric Fresneau
  • Publication number: 20200113708
    Abstract: Anchoring devices, anchoring systems for intervertebral implants, intervertebral implants, and instruments and methods for implanting implants are disclosed. In preferred configurations, these various objects share the feature of comprising or cooperating with an anchoring device having a body comprising at least one curved plate elongated along a longitudinal axis, designed to be inserted through a passage crossing at least a part of implant, in order to penetrate into at least one vertebral endplate and attach implant onto this vertebral endplate by means of at least one stop retaining the implant, characterized in that the body comprises at least one longitudinal rib on at least a part of at least one of its faces, said rib being designed to cooperate with a groove made in passage of implant. In some preferred configurations, anchoring device comprises withdrawal stops or latches, and/or means for withdrawing the anchor from an inserted position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Herve Dinville, Samuel Lequette, Manuel Delhaye, Henny Francois Parent, Alexis Faline, Pablo Lawner, Faissal Zahrawi, Thomas Bierstedt
  • Patent number: 10561502
    Abstract: Various embodiments of an intervertebral implant comprise a body extending longitudinally along a primary axis, a baseplate, a plurality of elongated arms having a vertebral support surface, the arms being articulated such that the implant has a folded-back position in which the arms are close to each other, and a deployed position in which the arms are moved away from each other, and expansion means between the folded-back and deployed positions, comprising at least two branches pivotably mounted relative to each other and attached to the elongated arms by guide means such that translation of the expansion means parallel to the primary axis causes pivoting of the branches and moves the arms away from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: LDR Medical, S.A.S.
    Inventors: Pierre Bernard, Hervé Chataigner, Craig Chebuhar, Alexander Kirgis, Ross Sherban, Samuel Lequette, Emmanuel Bougere, Aymeric Fresneau, Nicolas Roche
  • Patent number: 10531961
    Abstract: Anchoring devices, anchoring systems for intervertebral implants, intervertebral implants, and instruments and methods for implanting implants are disclosed. In preferred configurations, these various objects share the feature of comprising or cooperating with an anchoring device having a body comprising at least one curved plate elongated along a longitudinal axis, designed to be inserted through a passage crossing at least a part of implant, in order to penetrate into at least one vertebral endplate and attach implant onto this vertebral endplate by means of at least one stop retaining the implant, characterized in that the body comprises at least one longitudinal rib on at least a part of at least one of its faces, said rib being designed to cooperate with a groove made in passage of implant. In some preferred configurations, anchoring device comprises withdrawal stops or latches, and/or means for withdrawing the anchor from an inserted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: LDR Medical
    Inventors: Hervé Dinville, Samuel Lequette, Manuel Delhaye, Henry François Parent, Alexis Faline, Pablo Lawner, Faissal Zahrawi, Thomas Bierstedt
  • Patent number: 10517652
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an interspinous implant, intended to be implanted between two adjacent dorsal spines, each including an upper edge, a lower edge and two opposed lateral faces, wherein the implant includes at least one body with dimensions arranged so as to maintain or restore a distance between the adjacent edges of the two spinous processes and including at least two wings extending so that at least a part of each wing lies along at least a part of one lateral face of one of the two spinous processes and, additionally, at least one retainer for the implant, designed to retain the body of the implant between the two spinous processes and to be inserted from the same lateral face as the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: LDR Medical
    Inventors: Herve Dinville, Samuel Lequette, Alexandre Jodaitis, Richard Wohns, Philippe Tisserand, Laurent Zabee
  • Patent number: 10485591
    Abstract: An anchoring system for the implantation of at least one anchoring device in at least one preferably bone tissue, the system is disclosed, with some embodiments comprising: at least one anchoring device comprising a curved body extending between an anterior end intended to penetrate without any deformation in the bone tissue and a posterior end intended to remain turned outward of the bone tissue, at least one guide extending along a longitudinal axis between a posterior end and an anterior end and comprising at least one guiding surface, substantially along the longitudinal axis, able to guide at least one anchoring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: LDR Medical, S.A.S.
    Inventors: Samuel Lequette, Emmanuel Bougere, Nicolas Bidegaimberry, Aymeric Fresneau
  • Patent number: 10478234
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an interspinous implant, intended to be implanted between two adjacent dorsal spines, each including an upper edge, a lower edge and two opposed lateral faces, wherein the implant includes at least one body with dimensions arranged so as to maintain or restore a distance between the adjacent edges of the two spinous processes and including at least two wings extending so that at least a part of each wing lies along at least a part of one lateral face of one of the two spinous processes and, additionally, at least one retainer for the implant, designed to retain the body of the implant between the two spinous processes and to be inserted from the same lateral face as the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: LDR Medical
    Inventors: Herve Dinville, Samuel Lequette, Alexandre Jodaitis, Richard Wohns, Philippe Tisserand, Laurent Zabee
  • Publication number: 20190336299
    Abstract: Various embodiments comprise an expansible intervertebral implant intended to be implanted in a space between two adjacent vertebrae to at least partly supplant an intervertebral disc, said implant being able to expand along three substantially mutually orthogonal axes so as to comply with the lordosis of the patient while still having increased stability and reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Pierre Bernard, Herve Chataigner, Craig Chebuhar, Alexander Kirgis, Ross Sherban, Samuel Lequette, Emmanuel Bougere, Aymeric Fresneau
  • Publication number: 20190336300
    Abstract: An expansible intervertebral implant is disclosed, various embodiments of which comprise an elongated body along a longitudinal axis comprised between a proximal end and a distal end, a flexible arm mounted in the vicinity of the distal end of the longitudinal body and movable between: a folded-back position with the arm substantially parallel to the axis, and a deployed position with the arm not parallel to the axis and away from the body to expand said implant along an axis, by assuming the general shape of a circular arc, a means for deployment of said flexible arm for deploying the latter from the folded-back position to the deployed position, by the sliding of a proximal portion of said flexible arm with respect to the body inducing an increase in the space occupied by the implant, greater than the space of the implant in the folded-back position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Pierre Bernard, Herve Chataigner, Craig Chebuhar, Alexander Kirgis, Ross Sherban, Samuel Lequette, Emmanuel Bougere, Aymeric Fresneau, Nicolas Roche
  • Patent number: 10456268
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a spinal arthrodesis system including at least two types of implants from among the three following types: an intersomatic implant (IS), including at least one passage (40) mating at least one anchoring device (1); an interspinous implant (IE), including at least two wings able to run along a portion of the vertebral spines (EI, ES); a facet implant (IF) including a bone attachment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: LDR Medical, S.A.S.
    Inventors: Alexis Mercier, Samuel Lequette
  • Publication number: 20190083277
    Abstract: This disclosure provides vertebral implants, fastening devices for vertebral implants, and implant instrumentation, and various combinations thereof. In some embodiments, the implant comprises a peripheral wall extending according to a vertical axis between upper and lower surfaces of the implant, with each such surface configured to be placed in contact with a vertebral structure, respectively, at the top and the bottom of the vertebral segment replaced by the implant. Some embodiments comprise fastening means, deployment of which anchors the implant in the lower and upper vertebral structures. Some fastening means may be deployed by sliding parallel to the vertical axis of the implant, and may comprise a plate with at least one part remaining in contact with the peripheral wall of the implant when deployed and a pointed end projecting from one of the upper and lower surfaces of the implant to enter a vertebral structures on completion of deployment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Herve Dinville, Samuel Lequette
  • Patent number: 10195046
    Abstract: Anchor removal instruments and methods for using the instruments are provided. In some embodiments, an intervertebral implant anchor extractor tool comprises a support, a support retainer configured to hold the support fixed with respect to the implant, an extractor having an anchor retainer, and an extractor guide. An embodiment of a method of using this implant anchor extractor tool comprises the steps of obtaining access to an anchor, grasping the anchor, and applying a withdrawal force on the anchor while applying a countervailing force against the implant or a vertebral structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: LDR Medical
    Inventors: Hervé Dinville, Samuel LeQuette, Emmanuel Bougère
  • Patent number: 10179015
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides various embodiments that may comprise an implant, to an instrument for implantation of the latter and to a method for manufacturing this implant which includes an elongated body between a free end and a head along a longitudinal axis on the one hand and turns of at least one threading on at least one portion of said body in proximity to the free end, along the longitudinal axis on the other hand, characterized in that the body includes a longitudinal internal conduit in at least one portion along the longitudinal axis, obtained by at least one first central machining operation parallel to the longitudinal axis and at least one second machining operation in a so-called transverse plane, not parallel to the longitudinal axis and crossing the wall of the body as far as the longitudinal internal conduit by making windows communicating between said longitudinal internal conduit and the outside of the body while preserving at least one portion of said turns and the wall of the body b
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: LDR Medical
    Inventors: Christophe Lavigne, Patrick Richard, Alexis Mercier, Samuel Lequette
  • Patent number: 10154909
    Abstract: This disclosure provides vertebral implants, fastening devices for vertebral implants, and implant instrumentation, and various combinations thereof. In some embodiments, the implant comprises a peripheral wall extending according to a vertical axis between upper and lower surfaces of the implant, with each such surface configured to be placed in contact with a vertebral structure, respectively, at the top and the bottom of the vertebral segment replaced by the implant. Some embodiments comprise fastening means, deployment of which anchors the implant in the lower and upper vertebral structures. Some fastening means may be deployed by sliding parallel to the vertical axis of the implant, and may comprise a plate with at least one part remaining in contact with the peripheral wall of the implant when deployed and a pointed end projecting from one of the upper and lower surfaces of the implant to enter a vertebral structures on completion of deployment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: LDR Medical
    Inventors: Hervé Dinville, Samuel Lequette
  • Publication number: 20180263667
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an interspinous implant, intended to be implanted between two adjacent dorsal spines, each including an upper edge, a lower edge and two opposed lateral faces, wherein the implant includes at least one body with dimensions arranged so as to maintain or restore a distance between the adjacent edges of the two spinous processes and including at least two wings extending so that at least a part of each wing lies along at least a part of one lateral face of one of the two spinous processes and, additionally, at least one retainer for the implant, designed to retain the body of the implant between the two spinous processes and to be inserted from the same lateral face as the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Herve DINVILLE, Samuel Lequette, Alexandre Jodaitis, Richard Wohns, Philippe Tisserand, Laurent Zabee
  • Publication number: 20180161173
    Abstract: Anchoring devices, anchoring systems for intervertebral implants, intervertebral implants, and instruments and methods for implanting implants are disclosed. In preferred configurations, these various objects share the feature of comprising or cooperating with an anchoring device having a body comprising at least one curved plate elongated along a longitudinal axis, designed to be inserted through a passage crossing at least a part of implant, in order to penetrate into at least one vertebral endplate and attach implant onto this vertebral endplate by means of at least one stop retaining the implant, characterized in that the body comprises at least one longitudinal rib on at least a part of at least one of its faces, said rib being designed to cooperate with a groove made in passage of implant. In some preferred configurations, anchoring device comprises withdrawal stops or latches, and/or means for withdrawing the anchor from an inserted position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Hervé Dinville, Samuel Lequette, Manuel Delhaye, Henry François PARENT, Alexis Faline, Pablo Lawner, Faissal Zahrawi, Thomas Bierstedt
  • Patent number: 9974661
    Abstract: This disclosure provides vertebral implants, fastening devices for vertebral implants, and implant instrumentation, and various combinations thereof. In some embodiments, the implant comprises a peripheral wall extending according to a vertical axis between upper and lower surfaces of the implant, with each such surface configured to be placed in contact with a vertebral structure, respectively, at the top and the bottom of the vertebral segment replaced by the implant. Some embodiments comprise fastening means, deployment of which anchors the implant in the lower and upper vertebral structures. Some fastening means may be deployed by sliding parallel to the vertical axis of the implant, and may comprise a plate with at least one part remaining in contact with the peripheral wall of the implant when deployed and a pointed end projecting from one of the upper and lower surfaces of the implant to enter a vertebral structures on completion of deployment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: LDR Medical
    Inventors: Hervé Dinville, Samuel Lequette
  • Publication number: 20180116812
    Abstract: Various embodiments comprise an expansible intervertebral implant intended to be implanted in a space between two adjacent vertebrae to at least partly supplant an intervertebral disc, said implant being able to expand along three substantially mutually orthogonal axes so as to comply with the lordosis of the patient while still having increased stability and reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Pierre Bernard, Hervé Chataigner, Craig Chebuhar, Alexander Kirgis, Ross Sherban, Samuel Lequette, Emmanuel Bougere, Aymeric Fresneau
  • Patent number: 9937050
    Abstract: This disclosure provides vertebral implants, fastening devices for vertebral implants, and implant instrumentation, and various combinations thereof. In some embodiments, the implant comprises a peripheral wall extending according to a vertical axis between upper and lower surfaces of the implant, with each such surface configured to be placed in contact with a vertebral structure, respectively, at the top and the bottom of the vertebral segment replaced by the implant. Some embodiments comprise fastening means, deployment of which anchors the implant in the lower and upper vertebral structures. Some fastening means may be deployed by sliding parallel to the vertical axis of the implant, and may comprise a plate with at least one part remaining in contact with the peripheral wall of the implant when deployed and a pointed end projecting from one of the upper and lower surfaces of the implant to enter a vertebral structures on completion of deployment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: LDR Medical
    Inventors: Hervé Dinville, Samuel Lequette
  • Patent number: 9913667
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an interspinous implant (1), intended to be implanted between two adjacent dorsal spines (EI, ES), each including an upper edge (E2), a lower edge (E3) and two opposed lateral faces (E4, E5), wherein the implant (1) includes at least one body (10) with dimensions arranged so as to maintain or restore a distance between the adjacent edges (E2, E3) of the two spinous processes (EI, ES) and including at least two wings (11, 12) extending so that at least a part of each wing (11, 12) lies along at least a part of one lateral face (E4, E5) of one of the two spinous processes (EI, ES) and, additionally, at least one retainer (2, 3, 4, 7, 111, 121, 221, 24, 28, 29, L, 90) for the implant, designed to retain the body (10) of the implant between the two spinous processes and to be inserted from the same lateral face as the body (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: LDR Medical
    Inventors: Herve Dinville, Samuel Lequette, Alexandre Jodaitis, Richard Wohns, Philippe Tisserand, Laurent Zabee