Patents by Inventor Steven Lynch
Steven Lynch 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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Publication number: 20240082020Abstract: A bone cleaning assembly with cleaning elements that remove soft tissue from bone stock. The module also includes a clearing element that is periodically urged against the cleaning elements to remove bone stock trapped by the cleaning elements from the cleaning elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Stryker CorporationInventors: John Coleman Horton, IV, John Bernero, Steven Brown, Eric Diehl, Shammodip Roy, Robin Babaris, Robert Lynch, Adam Thelen
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Patent number: 9290989Abstract: A door comprising first and second door skins secured to each other to form a cavity therebetween filled with expended foam. Each of the door skins has an opening therethrough for receiving a glass insert and a flange portion. Distal ends of the flange portions of the first and second door skins engage each other in an overlapping relationship by the expansion pressure of the expanded foam. The door further comprises a glazing rim member having a leg portion snap-locked between the flange portions of the first and second door skins. The method for assembling the door comprises the steps of filling the cavity between the door skins with foam material, then inserting the glass insert through the openings in the door skins and mounting the glazing rim member to the first door skin by snap-locking between the flange portions of the first and second door skins.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2014Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: Masonite CorporationInventors: Steven Lynch, Jason Caulk, Jason M. Walsh, Mark A. Ruggie, Timothy D. Gouge, Gary Thomas Fagan, Eric Duane Bennett, Haritha Wunnava, Danny Lee Fitts
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Publication number: 20150024164Abstract: A door comprising first and second door skins secured to each other to form a cavity therebetween filled with expended foam. Each of the door skins has an opening therethrough for receiving a glass insert and a flange portion. Distal ends of the flange portions of the first and second door skins engage each other in an overlapping relationship by the expansion pressure of the expanded foam. The door further comprises a glazing rim member having a leg portion snap-locked between the flange portions of the first and second door skins. The method for assembling the door comprises the steps of filling the cavity between the door skins with foam material, then inserting the glass insert through the openings in the door skins and mounting the glazing rim member to the first door skin by snap-locking between the flange portions of the first and second door skins.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Inventors: Steven LYNCH, Jason CAULK, Jason M. WALSH, Mark A. RUGGIE, Timothy D. GOUGE, Gary Thomas FAGAN, Eric Duane BENNETT, Haritha WUNNAVA, Danny Lee FITTS
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Patent number: 8789330Abstract: A door comprising first and second door skins secured to each other to form a cavity therebetween filled with expended foam. Each of the door skins has an opening therethrough for receiving a glass insert and a flange portion. Distal ends of the flange portions of the first and second door skins engage each other in an overlapping relationship by the expansion pressure of the expanded foam. The door further comprises a glazing rim member having a leg portion snap-locked between the flange portions of the first and second door skins. The method for assembling the door comprises the steps of filling the cavity between the door skins with foam material, then inserting the glass insert through the openings in the door skins and mounting the glazing rim member to the first door skin by snap-locking between the flange portions of the first and second door skins.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Masonite CorporationInventors: Steven Lynch, Jason Caulk, Jason M. Walsh, Mark A. Ruggie, Timothy D. Gouge, Gary Thomas Fagan, Eric Duane Bennett, Haritha Wunnava, Danny Lee Fitts
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Patent number: 8192439Abstract: A minimally invasive surgical system for implanting pedicle screw assemblies to be connected by a spinal rod is disclosed. In one form, the system includes a plurality of holding mechanisms for the pedicle screw assemblies, each holding mechanism for being inserted through an incision and configured to receive tools along an axis thereof for driving a screw anchor of the pedicle screw assembly into a vertebra and securing the spinal rod thereto and a rod inserter that is configured to adjustably hold the rod and insert the rod through a common incision with one of the holding mechanism for being fed into position in an initial direction that is transverse to the axes of the holding mechanisms.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2007Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Pioneer Surgical Technology, Inc.Inventors: Matthew N. Songer, Matthew P. Gephart, Philip Berman, Bobby Steven Lynch, Ernie N. Corrao
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Publication number: 20110296651Abstract: A door comprising first and second door skins secured to each other to form a cavity therebetween filled with expended foam. Each of the door skins has an opening therethrough for receiving a glass insert and a flange portion. Distal ends of the flange portions of the first and second door skins engage each other in an overlapping relationship by the expansion pressure of the expanded foam. The door further comprises a glazing rim member having a leg portion snap-locked between the flange portions of the first and second door skins. The method for assembling the door comprises the steps of filling the cavity between the door skins with foam material, then inserting the glass insert through the openings in the door skins and mounting the glazing rim member to the first door skin by snap-locking between the flange portions of the first and second door skins.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2011Publication date: December 8, 2011Inventors: Steven LYNCH, Jason Caulk, Jason M. Walsh, Mark A. Ruggie, Timothy D. Gouge, Gary Thomas Fagan, Eric Duane Bennett, Haritha Wunnava, Danny Lee Fitts
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Patent number: 7997040Abstract: A door comprising first and second door skins secured to each other to form a cavity therebetween filled with expended foam. Each of the door skins has an opening therethrough for receiving a glass insert and a flange portion. Distal ends of the flange portions of the first and second door skins engage each other in an overlapping relationship by the expansion pressure of the expanded foam. The door further comprises a glazing rim member having a leg portion snap-locked between the flange portions of the first and second door skins. The method for assembling the door comprises the steps of filling the cavity between the door skins with foam material, then inserting the glass insert through the openings in the door skins and mounting the glazing rim member to the first door skin by snap-locking between the flange portions of the first and second door skins.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2010Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Masonite CorporationInventors: Steven Lynch, Jason Caulk, Jason M. Walsh, Mark A. Ruggie, Timothy D. Gouge, Gary Thomas Fagan, Eric Duane Bennett, Haritha Wunnava, Danny Lee Fitts
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Patent number: 7922727Abstract: A minimally invasive surgical system for implanting pedicle screw assemblies to be connected by a spinal rod is disclosed. In one form, the system includes a plurality of holding mechanisms for the pedicle screw assemblies, each holding mechanism for being inserted through an incision and configured to receive tools along an axis thereof for driving a screw anchor of the pedicle screw assembly into a vertebra and securing the spinal rod thereto and a rod inserter that is configured to adjustably hold the rod and insert the rod through a common incision with one of the holding mechanism for being fed into position in an initial direction that is transverse to the axes of the holding mechanisms.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2007Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Pioneer Surgical Technology, Inc.Inventors: Matthew N. Songer, Matthew P. Gephart, Philip Berman, Bobby Steven Lynch, Ernie N. Corrao
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Patent number: 7918878Abstract: A minimally invasive surgical system for implanting pedicle screw assemblies to be connected by a spinal rod is disclosed. In one form, the system includes a plurality of holding mechanisms for the pedicle screw assemblies, each holding mechanism for being inserted through an incision and configured to receive tools along an axis thereof for driving a screw anchor of the pedicle screw assembly into a vertebra and securing the spinal rod thereto and a rod inserter that is configured to adjustably hold the rod and insert the rod through a common incision with one of the holding mechanism for being fed into position in an initial direction that is transverse to the axes of the holding mechanisms.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2007Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Pioneer Surgical Technology, Inc.Inventors: Matthew N. Songer, Matthew P. Gephart, Philip Berman, Bobby Steven Lynch, Ernie N. Corrao
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Publication number: 20110020609Abstract: A panel and method of making a panel is disclosed. One described panel comprises a core comprising a flat region and a contoured region, wherein the contoured region comprises a convex feature, a first adjacent base and a second adjacent base, the apex of the convex feature has a first caliper, the first adjacent base has a second caliper smaller than the first caliper, and the second adjacent base has a third caliper smaller than the first caliper.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2010Publication date: January 27, 2011Inventors: Steven Lynch, Geoffrey Hardwick, Timothy Gouge, Robert Allen, Bei-Hong Liang, Michael Macdonald, Peter Moran, Michael Halton, Jonathan Pugsley, Michael Conlon
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Publication number: 20100229500Abstract: A door comprising first and second door skins secured to each other to form a cavity therebetween filled with expended foam. Each of the door skins has an opening therethrough for receiving a glass insert and a flange portion. Distal ends of the flange portions of the first and second door skins engage each other in an overlapping relationship by the expansion pressure of the expanded foam. The door further comprises a glazing rim member having a leg portion snap-locked between the flange portions of the first and second door skins. The method for assembling the door comprises the steps of filling the cavity between the door skins with foam material, then inserting the glass insert through the openings in the door skins and mounting the glazing rim member to the first door skin by snap-locking between the flange portions of the first and second door skins.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2010Publication date: September 16, 2010Inventors: Steven LYNCH, Jason Caulk, Jason M. Walsh, Mark A. Ruggie, Timothy D. Gouge, Gary Thomas Fagan, Eric Duane Bennett, Haritha Wunnava, Danny Lee Fitts
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Patent number: 7721501Abstract: A door comprising first and second door skins secured to each other to form a cavity therebetween filled with expended foam. Each of the door skins has an opening therethrough for receiving a glass insert and a flange portion. Distal ends of the flange portions of the first and second door skins engage each other in an overlapping relationship by the expansion pressure of the expanded foam. The door further comprises a glazing rim member having a leg portion snap-locked between the flange portions of the first and second door skins. The method for assembling the door comprises the steps of filling the cavity between the door skins with foam material, then inserting the glass insert through the openings in the door skins and mounting the glazing rim member to the first door skin by snap-locking between the flange portions of the first and second door skins.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2007Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignee: Masonite CorporationInventors: Steven Lynch, Jason Caulk, Jason M. Walsh, Mark A. Ruggle, Timothy D. Gouge, Gary Thomas Fagan, Eric Duane Bennett, Haritha Wunnava, Danny Lee Fitts
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Publication number: 20080041014Abstract: A door skin comprises an exterior side and an interior side for being secured to a frame member. First and second molded, spaced stiles lie on a first plane. A flat planar portion is disposed between the stiles and lies on a second plane spaced from the first plane. A first interface portion is disposed between and contiguous with the stiles and the flat planar portion. First and second integrally molded, spaced rails lie on a third plane, wherein the third plane is intermediate the first and second planes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2007Publication date: February 21, 2008Inventors: Steven Lynch, Bei-hong Liang, Mark Ruggie, Jason Walsh, Henry Coghlan, Geoffrey Hardwick
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Publication number: 20070204546Abstract: A door comprising first and second door skins secured to each other to form a cavity therebetween filled with expended foam. Each of the door skins has an opening therethrough for receiving a glass insert and a flange portion. Distal ends of the flange portions of the first and second door skins engage each other in an overlapping relationship by the expansion pressure of the expanded foam. The door further comprises a glazing rim member having a leg portion snap-locked between the flange portions of the first and second door skins. The method for assembling the door comprises the steps of filling the cavity between the door skins with foam material, then inserting the glass insert through the openings in the door skins and mounting the glazing rim member to the first door skin by snap-locking between the flange portions of the first and second door skins.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventors: Steven Lynch, Jason Caulk, Jason M. Walsh, Mark A. Ruggle, Timothy D. Gouge, Gary Thomas Fagan, Eric Duane Bennett, Haritha Wunnava, Danny Lee Fitts
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Publication number: 20070113520Abstract: A door, method of making a door, and stack of doors includes providing a door having front and back skins that have differing, but complementary profiles, one for the front side of the door and one for the back side of the door where each allows and fits onto the other, while still providing direct contact in the stile and rail zones of the door permitting conventional door layup practices.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2005Publication date: May 24, 2007Inventors: Steven Lynch, Robert Allen, Greg Wysock
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Publication number: 20070082997Abstract: A composite door structure especially suitable for use as a door facing is provided. The structure comprises about 40 weight percent to about 80 weight percent thermoplastic polymer; up to about 30 weight percent glass fibers; and a filler selected from (a) about 5 weight percent to about 40 weight percent mineral filler and (b) about 10 weight percent to about 50 weight percent organic fibrous additive. A composite door comprising the door facing, and methods of making the same are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2004Publication date: April 12, 2007Inventors: James Pfau, Dilpreet Bajwa, Manish Gupta, Michael MacDonald, Steven Lynch, Gary Fagan, Richard Kon
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Publication number: 20070051429Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and method for forming an arched top door facing, and the resulting facing. The system includes a panel, a table and a cutting assembly. The panel has a first surface intended to be interiorly disposed and a second surface intended to be exteriorly disposed. At least one boss extends from the first surface. The table has a planar surface and a locator extending outwardly from the planar surface. The locator cooperates with the boss to locate the panel on the planar surface. The cutter assembly is operatively associated with the table, and includes a blade spaced from the locator. The blade engages the panel and forms a curved edge in the panel when one of the blade and the panel is rotated about the locator.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2005Publication date: March 8, 2007Inventors: Steven Lynch, Mark Ruggie, Jason Caulk
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Publication number: 20070028559Abstract: A universal door skin blank comprises an exterior side and an interior side for securing to a frame member, first and second molded, spaced stiles, and a flat planar portion disposed between the stiles and lying on a plane spaced from the plane of the stiles. An interface portion is disposed between and contiguous with the stiles and the flat planar portion. The invention also relates to a door having at least one universal door skin blank, with at least two separately formed rails secured to the planar portion of the blank at opposite ends thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2006Publication date: February 8, 2007Inventors: Steven Lynch, Bei-Hong Liang, Mark Ruggie, Jason Walsh, Henry Coghlan
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Publication number: 20060185281Abstract: A reverse molded, plant-on decorative panel component comprises a panel portion lying on a first plane, a skirt portion, and a contoured portion. The skirt portion has a first surface adapted to be exteriorly disposed and an opposite second surface adapted to be interiorly disposed in order to be adhesively secured to a planar surface. The contoured portion extends outwardly from and surrounds the panel portion and interconnects and is integral with the panel portion and the skirt portion. The skirt portion extends peripherally about the contoured portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2006Publication date: August 24, 2006Inventors: Steven Lynch, Dale Schafernak, Karine Luetgert, Bei-Hong Liang, Lee Braddock
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Publication number: 20050258313Abstract: An electronic code following relay for use in a railroad signaling system includes a timing circuit for receiving an input square wave signal coded at a pre-determined code rate, and regenerating the input square wave signal at the pre-determined code rate after a predetermined time delay; and a driving circuit coupled to the timing circuit for receiving the delayed square wave signal therefrom and conducting, at the predetermined code rate, at least a power source to at least one of various components in the railroad signaling system including a rail of a track. The electronic code following relay is preferably microprocessor-based and uses an opto-coupler and various solid-state relays for conducting various DC and AC power sources to the components of the railroad signaling system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2005Publication date: November 24, 2005Applicant: Phase2 Concepts, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Yerge, Steven Lynch