Patents by Inventor Tom C. Pagonis

Tom C. Pagonis 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: 20240069318
    Abstract: A device for protecting a dental professional from patient aerosol and splatter is provided. The device includes a first elastic section with two holes connected to a second rigid section. The first section is sufficiently elastic to allow for increasing or decreasing the inter optic distance of a binocular operating microscope without affecting the seal or material integrity of the first section or the position or function of the second section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Mario Abdennour, Tom C. Pagonis
  • Patent number: 11852796
    Abstract: A device for protecting a dental professional from patient aerosol and splatter is provided. The device includes a first elastic section with two holes connected to a second rigid section. The first section is sufficiently elastic to allow for increasing or decreasing the inter optic distance of a binocular operating microscope without affecting the seal or material integrity of the first section or the position or function of the second section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Inventors: Tom C. Pagonis, Mario Abdennour
  • Publication number: 20210356727
    Abstract: A device for protecting a dental professional from patient aerosol and splatter is provided. The device includes a first elastic section with two holes connected to a second rigid section. The first section is sufficiently elastic to allow for increasing or decreasing the inter optic distance of a binocular operating microscope without affecting the seal or material integrity of the first section or the position or function of the second section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Tom C. Pagonis, Mario Abdennour
  • Publication number: 20210106397
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided herein for a surgical optical system having a heads up display including, in accordance with various embodiments, an optical device, an image sensor optically coupled to the optical device to acquire image data from a field of view of the optical device, and a display device configured to display an acquired image representing the image data acquired by the image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Tom C. Pagonis, Simon Beylin, Michael J. Kang, Eric W. Young
  • Patent number: 10820962
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided herein for a surgical optical system having a heads up display including, in accordance with various embodiments, an optical device, an image sensor optically coupled to the optical device to acquire image data from a field of view of the optical device, and a display device configured to display an acquired image representing the image data acquired by the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: TSME, LLC
    Inventors: Tom C. Pagonis, Simon Beylin, Michael J. Kang, Eric W. Young
  • Publication number: 20200330205
    Abstract: A device for measuring the length of a root canal of a subject is provided. The device includes a flexible sheath slidable over a dental handpiece head. The sheath includes electrically conducting wires for connecting to an apex locator. Also provided is a device for measuring root canal length that includes an endodontic file having a metallic element at the file end far from the end inserted into a root canal. The modified file provides a region in the metallic element for electronic attachment to an apex locator such that the rubber stopper may be moved along the entire file surface without interference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventor: Tom C. Pagonis
  • Patent number: 10722334
    Abstract: A device for measuring the length of a root canal of a subject is provided. The device includes a flexible sheath slidable over a dental handpiece head. The sheath includes electrically conducting wires for connecting to an apex locator. Also provided is a device for measuring root canal length that includes an endodontic file having a metallic element at the file end far from the end inserted into a root canal. The modified file provides a region in the metallic element for electronic attachment to an apex locator such that the rubber stopper may be moved along the entire file surface without interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Inventor: Tom C. Pagonis
  • Publication number: 20180235723
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided herein for a surgical optical system having a heads up display including, in accordance with various embodiments, an optical device, an image sensor optically coupled to the optical device to acquire image data from a field of view of the optical device, and a display device configured to display an acquired image representing the image data acquired by the image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Tom C. Pagonis, Simon Beylin, Michael J. Kang, Eric W. Young
  • Publication number: 20180228585
    Abstract: A device for measuring the length of a root canal of a subject is provided. The device includes a flexible sheath slidable over a dental handpiece head. The sheath includes electrically conducting wires for connecting to an apex locator. Also provided is a device for measuring root canal length that includes an endodontic file having a metallic element at the file end far from the end inserted into a root canal. The modified file provides a region in the metallic element for electronic attachment to an apex locator such that the rubber stopper may be moved along the entire file surface without interference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Ian Grayson, Tom C. Pagonis
  • Publication number: 20160015478
    Abstract: System and method for non-invasive sonication, through at least one of enamel and dentin, of a root-canal system of a target tooth with an externally delivered ultrasound beam, to disinfect the root-canal system while blocking a nerve associated with the tooth and removing a need for radiography to confirm the results of endodontics. The tooth does not have a physical access opening to the root canal system. When focused, the beam is oriented to expose the root-canal system to the ultrasound within the confocal range of the beam such as to concentrate the ultrasound energy within the root-canal system and to avoid irradiating teeth that are immediately adjacent to the target tooth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Ferenc A. Jolesz, Phillip Jason White, Gregory Thomas Clement, Nathan McDannold, Tom C. Pagonis, Douglass Adams