Did You Know...
...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8152846 | Instrumentation and method for repair of meniscus tissue The invention is directed toward a method and instrumentation to replace a damaged human knee joint meniscus with an allograft meniscus. The implant has its bone base cut to a desired width in a workstation. The finished base is measured in the sizing groove of the ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152808 | Surgical bone cutting assembly and method of using same The invention is directed toward a surgical kit having component parts capable of use in excising a cartilage defect site on a patient to prepare the same for receipt of an implant plug, the kit comprising a cylindrical gauge with a central bore used to measure the ... | 04/10/2012 |
| RE43258 | Glue for cartilage repair The invention is directed toward a sterile cartilage defect implant material comprising milled lyophilized allograft cartilage pieces ranging from 0.01 mm to 1.0 mm in size in a bioabsorbable carrier taken from a group consisting of sodium hyaluronate, hyaluronic ac... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8109935 | Implant inserter device An implant inserter device having an outer collar, an inner sleeve slidably and rotatably received within the outer collar, and a push rod slidably received within the inner sleeve. The outer collar has at least one cammed surface formed on an interior surface there... | 02/07/2012 |
| 7959683 | Packed demineralized cancellous tissue forms for disc nucleus augmentation, restoration, or replacement and methods of implantation A composition for spinal disc repair comprising a plurality of uniformly shaped demineralized cancellous bone pieces ranging in size from about 2.0 mm to about 4.0 mm loaded into a porous mesh container with the cancellous bone pieces being treated so that they are ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7901457 | Cartilage allograft plug The invention is directed toward a cartilage repair assembly comprising a shaped allograft structure of subchondral bone with an integral overlying cartilage cap which is treated to remove cellular debris and proteoglycans and milled allograft cartilage in a bioabso... | 03/08/2011 |
| RE42208 | Glue for cartilage repair The invention is directed toward a sterile cartilage defect implant material comprising milled lyophilized allograft cartilage pieces ranging from 0.01 mm to 1.0 mm in size in a bioabsorbable carrier taken from a group consisting of sodium hyaluronate, hyaluronic ac... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7879103 | Vertebral disc repair A sterile implant for treatment of a spinal disc defect comprising an allograft cortical bone demineralized to a Type I collagen having a specific shape which is treated to eliminate osteoinductivity. The implant is lyophilized and compressed into smaller first shap... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7837740 | Two piece cancellous construct for cartilage repair The invention is directed toward a cartilage repair assembly comprising a shaped allograft two piece construct with a demineralized cancellous cap and a mineralized cylindrical base member defining a blind bore with a through going transverse bore intersecting the b... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7815926 | Implant for articular cartilage repair An implant for articular cartilage repair includes (1) a three-dimensional body formed of cancellous bone having a demineralized section that contains bone morphogenetic proteins (BMP's) that are released by the demineralization but retained in the body, and (2) a c... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7780668 | Osteochondral allograft cartilage transplant workstation A portable surgical workstation for implant formation comprising a base with a central planar section. The central planar section has a plurality of tracks and a throughgoing slot with a recessed stepped surrounding surface formed on a bottom surface of the central ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7723108 | Soft tissue processing The present invention is a process for preparing soft tissue such as tendons, ligaments, cartilage, fascia, dermis, human valves and human veins for implant in a human and removes cellular components and forms an decellular matrix having as major components collagen... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7722608 | Allograft implant workstation A portable surgical workstation for implant formation comprising a base with a central planar section. The central planar section has a plurality of tracks and a throughgoing slot with a recessed stepped surrounding surface formed on a bottom surface of the central ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7488348 | Cartilage allograft plug The invention is directed toward a cartilage repair assembly comprising a cylindrically shaped allograft structure of subchondral bone with an integral overlying smaller diameter cartilage cap which is treated to remove cellular debris and proteoglycans. The shaped ... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7323011 | Cortical and cancellous allograft cervical fusion block A sterile composite bone graft for use in implants comprising a T shaped cortical bone load bearing member mated to a cancellous member. The crosspiece of the T defines an inner planar surface and dove tail shaped mating member extends outward from the inner planar ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7309356 | Bone-tendon- bone assembly with cancellous allograft bone block The invention is directed toward a bone-tendon-bone assembly extended between two shaped cancellous bone blocks and a method of inserting same in a joint. Each substantially cylindrically shaped cancellous bone block has a central through going bore, a flat exterior... | 12/18/2007 |
| RE39587 | Malleable paste for filling bone defects The invention is directed toward a malleable bone putty and a flowable gel composition for application to a bone defect site to promote new bone growth at the site which comprises a new bone growth inducing compound of demineralized lyophilized allograft bone powder... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7201773 | Bone tendon bone assembly The invention is directed toward a bone block, a bone-tendon-bone assembly and method of tendon reconstruction in which at least one tendon replacement is extended between two bone blocks and fixed within each of two bone tunnels in the bones of a joint using interf... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7144425 | Method for inserting improved bone tendon bone assembly with allograft bone block The invention is directed toward a bone block, a bone-tendon-bone assembly and method of tendon reconstruction in which at least one tendon replacement is extended between two bone blocks and fixed within each of two bone tunnels in the bones of a joint using interf... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7141066 | Bone tendon bone assembly with cylindrical allograft bone block The invention is directed toward a bone block, a bone-tendon-bone assembly and method of tendon reconstruction in which at least one tendon replacement is extended between two bone blocks and fixed within each of two bone tunnels in the bones of a joint using interf... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7137996 | Bone tendon bone assembly with allograft bone block The invention is directed toward a bone block, a bone-tendon-bone assembly and method of tendon reconstruction in which at least one tendon replacement is extended between two bone blocks and fixed within each of two bone tunnels in the bones of a joint using interf... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7081123 | Bone marrow aspiration instrument The cannula handle housing includes a recessed seat, wings extending outwardly from the recessed seat in the housing for engagement with a physician's hand and a stem which extends from said housing to hold a portion of a cannula The cannula has a distal sharpened e... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7067123 | Glue for cartilage repair The invention is directed toward a sterile cartilage defect implant material comprising milled lyophilized allograft cartilage pieces ranging from 0.01 mm to 1.0 mm in size in a bioabsorbable carrier taken from a group consisting of sodium hyaluronate, hyaluronic ac... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7044968 | Compound bone structure of allograft tissue with threaded fasteners A composite allograft bone device having a first bone member body with a face that defines a plurality of spaced projections forming a pattern and a second bone member body defining a face that forms a plurality of spaced projections forming a second pattern. The pr... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7045141 | Allograft bone composition having a gelatin binder The invention is directed toward an osteoimplant for application to a bone defect site to promote new bone growth at the site which comprises a new bone growth inducing composition of demineralized allograft bone material mixed with an aqueous phosphate buffered gel... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7018382 | Bone marrow mixing instrument The bone marrow mixing instrument having a handle housing with a trigger mounted thereto. The handle housing contains a ratchet drive feed mechanism with a pawl assembly and a moveable ratchet bar. The other end of the ratchet bar is secured to a mixing housing whic... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7019192 | Composition for filling bone defects The invention is directed toward a formable bone composition for application to a bone defect site to promote new bone growth at the site which comprises a new bone growth inducing compound of demineralized lyophilized allograft bone particles. The particle size ran... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6998135 | Demineralized corticocancellous bone sheet A flexible, demineralized unitary bone sheet comprised of cortical cancellous bone having a residual calcium weight of 3.0% to 8.0% with a hyaluronic acid component having a molecular weight of 700,000 to 1,500,000 with the weight of the same ranging from 1% to abou... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6911212 | Malleable putty and flowable paste with allograft bone having residual calcium for filling bone defects The invention is directed toward a malleable bone putty and a flowable pastel composition for application to a bone defect site to promote new bone growth at the site which comprises a new bone growth inducing compound of partially demineralized lyophilized allograf... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6890354 | Bone-tendon-bone assembly with allograft bone block and method for inserting same The invention is directed toward a bone block, a bone-tendon-bone assembly and method of tendon reconstruction in which at least one tendon replacement is extended between two bone blocks and fixed within each of two bone tunnels in the bones of a joint using interf... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6854599 | Packaging system for frozen allograft tissue forms A container for storing and dispensing frozen allograft tissue packages comprising: a plurality of allograft tissue packages, a container housing for holding the plurality of frozen allograft tissue packages in a separated stacked array. The allograft tissue package... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6830149 | Package with insert for holding allograft implant to preclude lipid transfer A double sterile container assembly for storing sterile allograft tissue implant forms constructed with an outer container defining an open faced cavity and a flange extending outward from the cavity and a stepped recess formed in the flange surrounding said cavity.... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6761739 | Cortical and cancellous allograft spacer A sterile composite bone graft for use in implants comprising an I beam cortical bone load bearing member upon which is mounted a trapezoidal shaped cancellous member. The allograft cancellous bone member defines tapered side walls, a flat proximal end wall and a fl... | 07/13/2004 |
| RE38522 | Malleable paste for filling bone defects The invention is directed toward a malleable bone putty and a flowable gel composition for application to a bone defect site to promote new bone growth at the site which comprises a new bone growth inducing compound of demineralized lyophilized allograft bone powder... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6730124 | Bone-tendon-bone assembly with cancellous allograft bone block The invention is directed toward a cancellous bone block assembly with at least one tendon replacement member being extended between two shaped cancellous bone blocks. Each substantially cylindrically shaped cancellous bone block has a central through going bore, a ... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6554863 | Intervertebral allograft spacer An allogenic intervertebral implant for fusing vertebrae is disclosed. The implant is a piece of allogenic bone conforming in size and shape with a portion of an end plate of a vertebra. The implant has a wedge-shaped profile to restore disc height and th... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6548080 | Method for partially demineralized cortical bone constructs The invention is directed toward a sterile bone structure for application to a bone defect site to promote new bone growth at the site comprising a partially demineralized cortical bone structure, said bone structure comprising a cross sectional surface a... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6508830 | Suture anchor A suture anchor comprising a cylindrical body portion with in inwardly tapered distal end portion has a screw thread extending along the cylindrical body portion and a plurality of parallel longitudinal grooves cut into the cylindrical body interrupting o... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6506192 | Allograft bone fixation screw A sterile allograft bone screw comprising a screw shank with a uniform diameter threaded portion, an unthreaded portion with a outwardly tapered conical portion and a rectangularly shaped driving head portion with substantially wedge shaped end which can ... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6458375 | Malleable paste with allograft bone reinforcement for filling bone defects The invention is directed toward a sterile malleable bone composition for application to a bone defect site to promote new bone growth at the site comprising a mixture of demineralized osteogenic bone powder with a particle size ranging from about 250 to ... | 10/01/2002 |
