Patents by Inventor Stephen A. Santangelo
Stephen A. Santangelo 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).
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Patent number: 10959719Abstract: A graft suspension device for suspending a ligament in a bone hole having a first loop and a second loop suspending from an 8-hole anchor, and a cradle at the opposite end of the loops to the anchor. The loose ends of the suture are routed through holes in the anchor separate from the loops and are joined together to form a single tail. A finger loop allows a surgeon to adjust the distance of the cradle from the anchor with the cradle staying centered with respect to the anchor as the distance is adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Michael Rodriguez, Norman Gordon, Tri Nguyen, Stephen Santangelo
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Publication number: 20200390453Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2020Publication date: December 17, 2020Applicant: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Mason J. Bettenga, Stephen A. Santangelo, Nikhil N. Verma, Jeffrey Wyman
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Patent number: 10806472Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Mason J. Bettenga, Stephen A. Santangelo, Nikhil N. Verma, Jeffrey Wyman
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Patent number: 10772622Abstract: A tissue repair device including a handle, an elongated needle body defining an axial bore extending from the handle, first and second implants connected by a suture and disposed at least partially within the axial bore of the needle. A ratchet assembly includes a pusher member that incrementally advances through the needle body to urge the first and second implants therefrom in a predefined sequence, a proximally-biased rotatable ratchet coupled to the pusher member, and an axially translatable drive mechanism configured to provide axial and rotational driving forces causing the ratchet to alternately engage and disengage from successively more distal teeth of a toothed surface within the handle. One or more implant retention features impeded undesired expulsion of implants from the needle.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2017Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Santangelo, Anthony O'Leary, Matthew Dennis Cunningham
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Publication number: 20200222066Abstract: A drill guide system provides a means of improved tunnel placement accuracy by allowing the drill guide to articulate to seat against the bone being drilled. The drill guide includes an articulating drill guide adapter constructed in four parts: a top cap, a thumbscrew, a lock tab, and a spring mechanism. The drill guide adapter is part of an aimer arm which mates with a handle on the proximal end and an aimer guide on the distal end. The drill guide adaptor allows the aimer guide to articulate relative to an irregular mating surface, allowing for increased area contact between the aimer guide template and bone. Examples of the drill guide adaptor also include a means for locking the aimer guide into place relative to the aimer arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2020Publication date: July 16, 2020Applicant: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Dennis Cunningham, Stephen Santangelo, Kimberly Anne Baker
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Publication number: 20200179098Abstract: A double lead interference screw useful for securing a soft tissue graft inside a bone tunnel of a bone mass is disclosed. The interference screw has continuous independent double threads having uniform pitch, helix angle, and crest height throughout the threaded portions of the screw; a bulbous head; a threaded proximal section with a cylindrical root, a threaded distal section with a tapered root, and a threaded tapered distal tip. Methods for soft tissue repair using the double lead interference screw are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2018Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Jennifer Ng, Robert Marx, William Ragheb, Jared Harlow, Jeffrey Wyman, Stephen Santangelo
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Patent number: 10639048Abstract: A drill guide system provides a means of improved tunnel placement accuracy by allowing the drill guide to articulate to seat against the bone being drilled. The drill guide includes an articulating drill guide adapter constructed in four parts: a top cap, a thumbscrew, a lock tab, and a spring mechanism. The drill guide adapter is part of an aimer arm which mates with a handle on the proximal end and an aimer guide on the distal end. The drill guide adaptor allows the aimer guide to articulate relative to an irregular mating surface, allowing for increased area contact between the aimer guide template and bone. Examples of the drill guide adaptor also include a means for locking the aimer guide into place relative to the aimer arm.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Dennis Cunningham, Stephen Santangelo, Kimberly Anne Baker
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Patent number: 10531863Abstract: A quick disconnect assembly including a tubular housing. The housing includes a cam pin secured to the housing and a nut positioned within the housing cannulation. The nut has a first threaded channel adapted to engage a threaded shaft, a second, non-threaded channel extending at an angle to the first channel, and an arcuate groove formed on an outer surface of the nut. When the cam pin of the housing engages the groove at about a distal end of the nut, the nut is positioned in a loading position where the second channel extends approximately parallel to the longitudinal axis of the housing. When the cam pin engages the groove at about a proximal end of the nut, the nut is positioned in a locking position where the first channel extends approximately parallel to the longitudinal axis of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2016Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Roland F. Gatturna, Stephen A. Santangelo
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Publication number: 20190365377Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a tissue repair system and related components and associated methods that provide for suturing of tissue using three or more suture anchoring implants, including multiple pairs of connected implants in some embodiments, all of which may be deployed from a single device. Some embodiments achieve this by employing a push mechanism capable of being activated to advance the push mechanism incrementally to discrete positions within the device and deploy implants one at a time from the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventors: Stephen A. Santangelo, Anthony O'Leary, Matthew D. Cunningham
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Publication number: 20190357903Abstract: An instrument for securing a knot disposed in surgical suture is provided. The instrument includes a side-loading channel disposed along the side of a knot pusher, the side-loading channel configured to receive the suture into the knot pusher. A method of operation is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Applicant: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Haberman, Stephen Santangelo
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Publication number: 20190321057Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include implants, instruments, and methods for attaching or reattaching soft tissue (200, 2200) to a bone (100), that enable independent tensioning of multiple connectors such as sutures (60, 160, 2060, 2160) and enable redundant fixation between bone (100) and soft tissue (200, 2200). Some embodiments provide for improved accuracy of the placement of substantially parallel tunnels through which soft tissue (200, 2200) to bone (100) connectors such as sutures (60, 160, 2060, 2160) are passed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Inventors: Robert LaPrade, Coen Wijdicks, Stephen A. Santangelo
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Publication number: 20190321024Abstract: A graft suspension device for suspending a ligament in a bone hole having a first loop and a second loop suspending from an 8-hole anchor, and a cradle at the opposite end of the loops to the anchor. The loose ends of the suture are routed through holes in the anchor separate from the loops and are joined together to form a single tail. A finger loop allows a surgeon to adjust the distance of the cradle from the anchor with the cradle staying centered with respect to the anchor as the distance is adjusted.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Inventors: Christopher Michael Rodriguez, Norman Gordon, Tri Nguyen, Stephen Santangelo
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Patent number: 10448942Abstract: A deformable or flexible suture anchor having apertures secures a suture to a skeletal structure via holes drilled through the skeletal structure, and passing the suture therethrough. A deformable structure permits the anchor to resiliently deform or bend for passing through an aperture, and resume a size larger than the passed aperture for securement on an opposed side of the aperture.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2014Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Santangelo, Jeffrey Wyman, Matthew E. Koski
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Patent number: 10426462Abstract: An instrument for securing a knot disposed in surgical suture is provided. The instrument includes a side-loading channel disposed along the side of a knot pusher, the side-loading channel configured to receive the suture into the knot pusher. A method of operation is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2015Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Haberman, Stephen Santangelo
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Publication number: 20190274697Abstract: Surgical drill guides have modular configurations and are adapted to accommodate a wide range of anatomy. The surgical drill guides are adapted to be removed while leaving a guide wire in its intended location in human bone. The distal end of the drill guide acts as a safety stop for the guide wire by preventing the guide wire from penetrating too far past the far side of the bone.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Applicant: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Santangelo, Anthony O'Leary, Matthew Dennis Cunningham, Scott Faucett, Jeffrey Wyman, Chun Liu, Roman Gutierrez
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Patent number: 10383617Abstract: A graft suspension device for suspending a ligament in a bone hole having a first loop and a second loop suspending from an 8-hole anchor, and a cradle at the opposite end of the loops to the anchor. The loose ends of the suture are routed through holes in the anchor separate from the loops and are joined together to form a single tail. A finger loop allows a surgeon to adjust the distance of the cradle from the anchor with the cradle staying centered with respect to the anchor as the distance is adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2017Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Michael Rodriguez, Norman Gordon, Tri Nguyen, Stephen Santangelo
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Patent number: 10383643Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include implants, instruments, and methods for attaching or reattaching soft tissue (200, 2200) to a bone (100), that enable independent tensioning of multiple connectors such as sutures (60, 160, 2060, 2160) and enable redundant fixation between bone (100) and soft tissue (200, 2200). Some embodiments provide for improved accuracy of the placement of substantially parallel tunnels through which soft tissue (200, 2200) to bone (100) connectors such as sutures (60, 160, 2060, 2160) are passed.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2015Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Robert LaPrade, Coen Wijdicks, Stephen Santangelo
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Publication number: 20190183482Abstract: A meniscal repair instrument includes an articulating mechanism configured to move a needle on the tip in a controlled arc. Multiple directions of motion are provided in order to facilitate the deployment of suture anchors. In one aspect, the articulating mechanism includes a series of movable members that are coupled together by two wires that are provided with a push/pull force via a control mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2017Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Santangelo, Anthony O'Leary, Matthew Dennis Cunningham
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Publication number: 20190099190Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a system for coupling a graft to a bone. A graft preparation tool may be used to place one or more holes in a graft and an offset measurement tool may be used to determine the distance of the one or more holes from an edge of the graft to be aligned with a portion of the bone. One or more complementary holes may then be created in the bone and fasteners applied through the holes to couple the graft to the bone.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2018Publication date: April 4, 2019Inventors: Daniel Haberman, Stephen A. Santangelo, Nikhil N. Verma
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Patent number: 10172627Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a system and method for coupling a graft to a bone. A graft preparation tool may be used to place one or more holes in a graft and an offset measurement tool may be used to determine the distance of the one or more holes from an edge of the graft to be aligned with a portion of the bone. One or more complementary holes may then be created in the bone and fasteners applied through the holes to couple the graft to the bone.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Haberman, Stephen A. Santangelo, Nikhil N. Verma