Patents by Inventor Thomas E. Keegan

Thomas E. Keegan 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: 7651496
    Abstract: A method for treating the spine. A guidewire is advanced through the skin of a patient along a percutaneous path to a target location of a vertebra. An implant is advanced over the guidewire to the target location of the vertebra. The implant is coupled with the vertebra at the target location. An elongate body having a proximal end and a distal end is advanced until the distal end is adjacent the target location, the elongate body having an inner surface defining a passage extending therethrough. A procedure is performed at the target location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Zimmer Spine, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas E. Keegan, John Matthew Lessin, Gene P. DiPoto
  • Patent number: 4018446
    Abstract: A board game consisting of a planar bottom base having upwardly extending sidewalls and end walls. A plurality of strip members extend upwardly from a top surface of the bottom base and communicate between the end walls and are evenly spaced between the sidewalls. Movable playing members are slidably contained in the tracks formed between the strip members. A line parallel to the ends of the board divides the board into two sections. Each player moves a number of playing members within the tracks from one end of the board to the other end. The player forced into moving the last playing member is the loser of the game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1977
    Inventor: Thomas E. Keegan