Patents by Inventor William Strausbaugh
William Strausbaugh 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: 20210244448Abstract: An extender system is configured to couple a vertebral bone anchor that has been previously implanted in a vertebra, or is newly implantable in a vertebra, to an adjacent bone, which can be an additional spinal level or an occiput, for example. The extender system includes an extension member having a body and an engagement member coupled to the body. The extension member defines an aperture extending through the engagement member. A screw is configured to attach the extension member to the vertebral bone anchor. The extension member can be fastened to the adjacent bone.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2021Publication date: August 12, 2021Inventors: Albert Montello, Oleg Levin, William Strausbaugh, Thomas Kueenzi
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Patent number: 11006978Abstract: An extender system is configured to couple a vertebral bone anchor that has been previously implanted in a vertebra, or is newly implantable in a vertebra, to an adjacent bone, which can be an additional spinal level or an occiput, for example. The extender system includes an extension member having a body and an engagement member coupled to the body. The extension member defines an aperture extending through the engagement member. A screw is configured to attach the extension member to the vertebral bone anchor. The extension member can be fastened to the adjacent bone.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2016Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Albert Montello, Oleg Levin, William Strausbaugh, Thomas Kueenzi
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Patent number: 10799273Abstract: A method and device for inserting screws into a patient, such that when the device is removed the device does not stick to the screw. The device, being a push-off driver, may have a handle, an inner driver, and a threaded driver sleeve having a button mechanism and a plurality of spheres, and an inner sleeve. The method includes the steps of assembling a push-off driver attaching a bone screw to the push-off driver inserting the bone screw and detaching the bone screw from the driver by unthreading the threaded driver sleeve from the polyaxial screw which causes the spheres in the recess of the inner driver to back up against the start of the recess and causing the threaded driver sleeve to “push-off” the polyaxial screw from the inner driver.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Sean Saidha, William Strausbaugh, Boyd A. Wolf
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Publication number: 20190117277Abstract: A method and device for inserting screws into a patient, such that when the device is removed the device does not stick to the screw. The device, being a push-off driver, may have a handle, an inner driver, and a threaded driver sleeve having a button mechanism and a plurality of spheres, and an inner sleeve. The method includes the steps of assembling a push-off driver attaching a bone screw to the push-off driver inserting the bone screw and detaching the bone screw from the driver by unthreading the threaded driver sleeve from the polyaxial screw which causes the spheres in the recess of the inner driver to back up against the start of the recess and causing the threaded driver sleeve to “push-off” the polyaxial screw from the inner driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventors: Sean Saidha, William Strausbaugh, Boyd A. Wolf
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Patent number: 10117684Abstract: A method and device for inserting screws into a patient, such that when the device is removed the device does not stick to the screw. The device, being a push-off driver, may have a handle, an inner driver, and a threaded driver sleeve having a button mechanism and a plurality of spheres, and an inner sleeve. The method includes the steps of assembling a push-off driver attaching a bone screw to the push-off driver inserting the bone screw and detaching the bone screw from the driver by unthreading the threaded driver sleeve from the polyaxial screw which causes the spheres in the recess of the inner driver to back up against the start of the recess and causing the threaded driver sleeve to “push-off” the polyaxial screw from the inner driver.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Sean Saidha, William Strausbaugh, Boyd A. Wolf
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Publication number: 20180235674Abstract: A method and device for inserting screws into a patient, such that when the device is removed the device does not stick to the screw. The device, being a push-off driver, may have a handle, an inner driver, and a threaded driver sleeve having a button mechanism and a plurality of spheres, and an inner sleeve. The method includes the steps of assembling a push-off driver attaching a bone screw to the push-off driver inserting the bone screw and detaching the bone screw from the driver by unthreading the threaded driver sleeve from the polyaxial screw which causes the spheres in the recess of the inner driver to back up against the start of the recess and causing the threaded driver sleeve to “push-off” the polyaxial screw from the inner driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2018Publication date: August 23, 2018Inventors: Sean Saidha, William Strausbaugh, Boyd A. Wolf
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Patent number: 9924980Abstract: A method and device for inserting screws into a patient, such that when the device is removed the device does not stick to the screw. The device, being a push-off driver, may have a handle, an inner driver, and a threaded driver sleeve having a button mechanism and a plurality of spheres, and an inner sleeve. The method includes the steps of assembling a push-off driver attaching a bone screw to the push-off driver inserting the bone screw and detaching the bone screw from the driver by unthreading the threaded driver sleeve from the polyaxial screw which causes the spheres in the recess of the inner driver to back up against the start of the recess and causing the threaded driver sleeve to “push-off” the polyaxial screw from the inner driver.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2016Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Sean Saidha, William Strausbaugh, Boyd A. Wolf
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Patent number: 9848918Abstract: A polyaxial bone anchor has a locking element shaped and configured to allow an anchoring member (e.g., a screw or hook) to polyaxially rotate at large angles about a central axis of the bone anchor before compression locking the anchoring member within an anchor head.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2014Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: William Strausbaugh, Sean Saidha, Boyd Wolf
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Publication number: 20170112540Abstract: An extender system is configured to couple a vertebral bone anchor that has been previously implanted in a vertebra, or is newly implantable in a vertebra, to an adjacent bone, which can be an additional spinal level or an occiput, for example. The extender system includes an extension member having a body and an engagement member coupled to the body. The extension member defines an aperture extending through the engagement member. A screw is configured to attach the extension member to the vertebral bone anchor. The extension member can be fastened to the adjacent bone.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2016Publication date: April 27, 2017Inventors: Albert Montello, Oleg Levin, William Strausbaugh, Thomas Kueenzi
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Publication number: 20170105771Abstract: A method and device for inserting screws into a patient, such that when the device is removed the device does not stick to the screw. The device, being a push-off driver, may have a handle, an inner driver, and a threaded driver sleeve having a button mechanism and a plurality of spheres, and an inner sleeve. The method includes the steps of assembling a push-off driver attaching a bone screw to the push-off driver inserting the bone screw and detaching the bone screw from the driver by unthreading the threaded driver sleeve from the polyaxial screw which causes the spheres in the recess of the inner driver to back up against the start of the recess and causing the threaded driver sleeve to “push-off” the polyaxial screw from the inner driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2016Publication date: April 20, 2017Inventors: Sean Saidha, William Strausbaugh, Boyd A. Wolf
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Patent number: 9554834Abstract: A method and device for inserting screws into a patient, such that when the device is removed the device does not stick to the screw. The device, being a push-off driver, may have a handle, an inner driver, and a threaded driver sleeve having a button mechanism and a plurality of spheres, and an inner sleeve. The method includes the steps of assembling a push-off driver attaching a bone screw to the push-off driver inserting the bone screw and detaching the bone screw from the driver by unthreading the threaded driver sleeve from the polyaxial screw which causes the spheres in the recess of the inner driver to back up against the start of the recess and causing the threaded driver sleeve to “push-off” the polyaxial screw from the inner driver.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2015Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Sean Saidha, William Strausbaugh, Boyd A. Wolf
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Patent number: 9510862Abstract: An extender system is configured to couple a vertebral bone anchor that has been previously implanted in a vertebra, or is newly implantable in a vertebra, to an adjacent bone, which can be an additional spinal level or an occiput, for example. The extender system includes an extension member having a body and an engagement member coupled to the body. The extension member defines an aperture extending through the engagement member. A screw is configured to attach the extension member to the vertebral bone anchor. The extension member can be fastened to the adjacent bone.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2010Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Albert Montello, Oleg Levin, William Strausbaugh, Thomas Kueenzi
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Publication number: 20150150605Abstract: A method and device for inserting screws into a patient, such that when the device is removed the device does not stick to the screw. The device, being a push-off driver, may have a handle, an inner driver, and a threaded driver sleeve having a button mechanism and a plurality of spheres, and an inner sleeve. The method includes the steps of assembling a push-off driver attaching a bone screw to the push-off driver inserting the bone screw and detaching the bone screw from the driver by unthreading the threaded driver sleeve from the polyaxial screw which causes the spheres in the recess of the inner driver to back up against the start of the recess and causing the threaded driver sleeve to “push-off” the polyaxial screw from the inner driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2015Publication date: June 4, 2015Inventors: Sean Saidha, William Strausbaugh, Boyd A. Wolf
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Publication number: 20140249582Abstract: A polyaxial bone anchor has a locking element shaped and configured to allow an anchoring member (e.g., a screw or hook) to polyaxially rotate at large angles about a central axis of the bone anchor before compression locking the anchoring member within an anchor head.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2014Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicant: DePuy Synthes Products, LLCInventors: William Strausbaugh, Sean Saidha, Boyd Wolf
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Patent number: 8460307Abstract: A method and device for inserting screws into a patient, such that when the device is removed the device does not stick to the screw. The device, being a push-off driver, may have a handle, an inner driver, and a threaded driver sleeve having a button mechanism and a plurality of spheres, and an inner sleeve. The method includes the steps of assembling a push-off driver attaching a bone screw to the push-off driver inserting the bone screw and detaching the bone screw from the driver by unthreading the threaded driver sleeve from the polyaxial screw which causes the spheres in the recess of the inner driver to back up against the start of the recess and causing the threaded driver sleeve to “push-off” the polyaxial screw from the inner driver.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2007Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Synthes USA, LLCInventors: Sean Saidha, William Strausbaugh, Boyd A. Wolf
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Publication number: 20100324599Abstract: An extender system is configured to couple a vertebral bone anchor that has been previously implanted in a vertebra, or is newly implantable in a vertebra, to an adjacent bone, which can be an additional spinal level or an occiput, for example. The extender system includes an extension member having a body and an engagement member coupled to the body. The extension member defines an aperture extending through the engagement member. A screw is configured to attach the extension member to the vertebral bone anchor. The extension member can be fastened to the adjacent bone.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2010Publication date: December 23, 2010Inventors: Albert Montello, Oleg Levin, William Strausbaugh, Thomas Kueenzi
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Publication number: 20080045970Abstract: A method and device for inserting screws into a patient, such that when the device is removed the device does not stick to the screw. The device, being a push-off driver, may have a handle, an inner driver, and a threaded driver sleeve having a button mechanism and a plurality of spheres, and an inner sleeve. The method includes the steps of assembling a push-off driver attaching a bone screw to the push-off driver inserting the bone screw and detaching the bone screw from the driver by unthreading the threaded driver sleeve from the polyaxial screw which causes the spheres in the recess of the inner driver to back up against the start of the recess and causing the threaded driver sleeve to “push-off” the polyaxial screw from the inner driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2007Publication date: February 21, 2008Inventors: SEAN SAIDHA, William Strausbaugh, Boyd Wolf
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Publication number: 20070118123Abstract: A polyaxial bone anchor has a locking element shaped and configured to allow an anchoring member (e.g., a screw or hook) to polyaxially rotate at large angles about a central axis of the bone anchor before compression locking the anchoring member within an anchor head.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2006Publication date: May 24, 2007Inventors: William Strausbaugh, Sean Saidha, Boyd Wolf
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Patent number: 6788869Abstract: A module comprising: (a) a housing; (b) a tray mounted in the housing, wherein the tray comprises at least: (i) a first and second submodule, each submodule having one or more compartments for containing individual add/drop filters; (ii) a first plurality of cascaded add/drop filters installed in the first submodule; and (iii) a second plurality of cascaded add/drops filters installed in the second submodule; and (c) connectors mounted to the housing and optically connected to the fibers at the ends of the first and second plurality of cascaded add/drop filters.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2002Date of Patent: September 7, 2004Inventors: William Strausbaugh, Eric Boyer, Richard Buterbaugh
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Publication number: 20020159747Abstract: A module comprising: (a) a housing; (b) a tray mounted in the housing, wherein the tray comprises at least: (i) a first and second submodule, each submodule having one or more compartments for containing individual add/drop filters; (ii) a first plurality of cascaded add/drop filters installed in the first submodule; and (iii) a second plurality of cascaded add/drops filters installed in the second submodule; and (c) connectors mounted to the housing and optically connected to the fibers at the ends of the first and second plurality of cascaded add/drop filters.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2002Publication date: October 31, 2002Inventors: William Strausbaugh, Eric Boyer, Richard Buterbaugh