Patents by Inventor Wayne Frederick Schatz

Wayne Frederick Schatz 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).

  • Ophthalmic surgical instrument with pre-set tip-to-shell orientation
    Patent number: 10271988
    Abstract: An ophthalmic surgical instrument comprises a multi-diameter shaft, a horn fixedly threaded into the shaft, a surgical tip for ophthalmic surgery including a tip end and threadably engaging the horn opposite the shaft, and a plug on the shaft. Weld material holds the plug on the shaft in a selected angular and longitudinal position with an angle-locating recess on the plug's circumference having a predetermined angular clocked relation to a face direction of the tip end. The plug's recess engages an irrigation tube on a subassembled handle with shell and irrigation tube, such that the subassembled handle has a known clocked position relative to the tip end of the tip, thus facilitating use by a surgeon. A related method is also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Autocam Medical Devices, LLC
    Inventors: Neal Robert DeTurk, Wayne Frederick Schatz, Richard Lawrence Lucia, Andrew Robert Butron, Frank Tamayo Plascencia, Jr., Terry Martin Yerka, Jose Eduardo Ameral
  • OPHTHALMIC SURGICAL INSTRUMENT WITH PRE-SET TIP-TO-SHELL ORIENTATION
    Publication number: 20160242961
    Abstract: An ophthalmic surgical instrument comprises a multi-diameter shaft, a horn fixedly threaded into the shaft, a surgical tip for ophthalmic surgery including a tip end and threadably engaging the horn opposite the shaft, and a plug on the shaft. Weld material holds the plug on the shaft in a selected angular and longitudinal position with an angle-locating recess on the plug's circumference having a predetermined angular clocked relation to a face direction of the tip end. The plug's recess engages an irrigation tube on a subassembled handle with shell and irrigation tube, such that the subassembled handle has a known clocked position relative to the tip end of the tip, thus facilitating use by a surgeon. A related method is also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Neal Robert DeTurk, Wayne Frederick Schatz, Richard Lawrence Lucia, Andrew Robert Butron, Frank Tamayo Plascencia, JR., Terry Martin Yerka, Jose Eduardo Ameral
  • Ophthalmic surgical instrument with pre-set tip-to-shell orientation
    Patent number: 9320648
    Abstract: An ophthalmic surgical instrument comprises a multi-diameter shaft, a horn fixedly threaded into the shaft, a surgical tip for ophthalmic surgery including a tip end and threadably engaging the horn opposite the shaft, and a plug on the shaft. Weld material holds the plug on the shaft in a selected angular and longitudinal position with an angle-locating recess on the plug's circumference having a predetermined angular clocked relation to a face direction of the tip end. The plug's recess engages an irrigation tube on a subassembled handle with shell and irrigation tube, such that the subassembled handle has a known clocked position relative to the tip end of the tip, thus facilitating use by a surgeon. A related method is also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Autocam Medical Devices, LLC
    Inventors: Neal Robert DeTurk, Wayne Frederick Schatz, Richard Lawrence Lucia, Andrew Robert Butron, Frank Tamayo Plascencia, Jr., Terry Martin Yerka, Jose Eduardo Ameral
  • OPHTHALMIC SURGICAL INSTRUMENT WITH PRE-SET TIP-TO-SHELL ORIENTATION
    Publication number: 20140100515
    Abstract: An ophthalmic surgical instrument comprises a multi-diameter shaft, a horn fixedly threaded into the shaft, a surgical tip for ophthalmic surgery including a tip end and threadably engaging the horn opposite the shaft, and a plug on the shaft. Weld material holds the plug on the shaft in a selected angular and longitudinal position with an angle-locating recess on the plug's circumference having a predetermined angular clocked relation to a face direction of the tip end. The plug's recess engages an irrigation tube on a subassembled handle with shell and irrigation tube, such that the subassembled handle has a known clocked position relative to the tip end of the tip, thus facilitating use by a surgeon. A related method is also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: AUTOCAM MEDICAL DEVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Neal Robert DeTurk, Wayne Frederick Schatz, Richard Lawrence Lucia, Andrew Robert Butron, Frank Tamayo Plascencia, Jr., Terry Martin Yerka, Jose Eduardo Ameral