Patents by Inventor Todd Bettenhausen

Todd Bettenhausen 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).

  • Publication number: 20070205123
    Abstract: A system for organizing, protecting, sterilizing, storing and delivery of surgical instruments, implants and related devices. Post and button fasteners are removably mounted to a tray and hold rigid and flexible bracketry for securing devices within the assembly. A flexible bar for holding items is mounted by a pair of rigid brackets in turn mounted either directly to the tray floor or to a base wall positioned atop the tray floor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Inventors: Todd Bettenhausen, Cary Bettenhausen
  • Publication number: 20070144926
    Abstract: A container system for organizing, protecting, sterilizing, storing and delivery of surgical instruments, implants and related devices. An optional cover is removably mounted to a tray and is held thereto by a pair of pivotally mounted handles. Post and button fasteners are removably mounted to the tray and hold rigid and flexible bracketry for securing devices within the assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventors: Todd Bettenhausen, Cary Bettenhausen
  • Publication number: 20060266666
    Abstract: A container system for organizing, protecting, sterilizing, storing and delivery of surgical instruments, implants and related devices. An optional cover is removably mounted to a tray and is held thereto by a pair of pivotally mounted handles. Post and button fasteners are removably mounted to the tray and hold rigid and flexible bracketry for securing devices within the assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2005
    Publication date: November 30, 2006
    Inventors: Todd Bettenhausen, Cary Bettenhausen
  • Publication number: 20050163686
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention a tray for sterilizing, storing, transporting and presenting surgical instruments is formed in a matrix format by molding, extrusion or assembling a matrix of interlocking egg crate type members with the contours of the instruments in question and in some cases a basket shape to hold several small instruments such as screws machined into the top surface of the matrix. The matrix is light, strong and burr free and is an open structure facilitating the passage of the sterilizing media, steam, past the instruments in question.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2005
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Applicants: William I. Summers, Connie L. Summers
    Inventors: Cary Bettenhausen, Todd Bettenhausen
  • Patent number: 6164738
    Abstract: A storage and sterilization tray assembly for sterilizing, transporting and storing surgical instruments includes a rack having a top, a bottom and four sides, and at least one slidably mounted drawer carried therein. At least one of the sides includes at least one pivotally mounted door which is moveable between a closed position in which the at least one slidably mounted drawer is retained in the rack, and an open position in which the at least one slidably mounted drawer may be slid at least partially out of the rack. The door also serves to stabilize the rack against tipping when in its open position. Preferably, one or more removable trays are carried in the drawer, and the rack includes a plurality of openings in the top, bottom and sides, aligned with openings in the drawer, for permitting ingress and egress of sterilant therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Poly Vac, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary T. Dane, Valentine T. Faust, III, Todd Bettenhausen, Cary Bettenhausen