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20090245474 | Specimen alignment and head holding system for imaging machines government rights - A laboratory specimen, such as a mouse or rat, can be accurately and repeatedly imaged in an imaging machine, such as an MRI machine, when securely positioned on a specimen support bed. The support bed includes contours and accessories for centering a specimen on the support bed. One or more bite bars coact with a head clamp to accurately fix a specimen's head in the same position time after time. | 10-01-2009 |
20100100072 | CATHETER AND SEAL ASSEMBLY - A laboratory specimen sealed within a chamber on an animal holder may be injected or otherwise administered material such as drugs and radioactive imagining materials from the ambient, or outside the chamber, through a sealed catheter assembly. The animal holder can be mounted on imaging machines such as MRI, X-ray, PET, CT and like imaging machines. Biologically contaminated animals are isolated within the chamber from the ambient, yet may be injected from outside the chamber thereby protecting lab technicians from contamination and isolating the animal from additional contamination from an ambient environment, such as an imaging laboratory. | 04-22-2010 |
20110092807 | Specimen positioning system for imaging machines - An animal holder is provided with a specialized coupling that is releasably mountable to a number of different imaging machines such as X-ray, CAT, MRI and PET machines. Composite images created from combining images from such different machines are particularly clear due to the predetermined alignment of the animal holder within the center of the field of view of each machine. | 04-21-2011 |
20130060138 | Catheter and Seal Assembly - A laboratory specimen sealed within a chamber on an animal holder may be injected or otherwise administered material such as drugs and radioactive imagining materials from the ambient, or outside the chamber, through a sealed catheter assembly. The animal holder can be mounted on imaging machines such as MRI, X-ray, PET, CT and like imaging machines. Biologically contaminated animals are isolated within the chamber from the ambient, yet may be injected from outside the chamber thereby protecting lab technicians from contamination and isolating the animal from additional contamination from an ambient environment, such as an imaging laboratory. | 03-07-2013 |
20130061812 | Specimen Alignment and Head Holding System for Imaging Machines - A laboratory specimen, such as a mouse or rat, can be accurately and repeatedly imaged in an imaging machine, such as an MRI machine, when securely positioned on a specimen support bed. The support bed includes contours and accessories for centering a specimen on the support bed. One or more bite bars coact with a head clamp to accurately fix a specimen's head in the same position time after time. | 03-14-2013 |
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20090062796 | Modular, blade-rod, intramedullary fixation device - The intramedullary fixation device for use in fixing the relative position between a tubular bone and an adjoining bone has, according to the present invention, an intramedullary nail that is inserted into the medullary canal of the tubular bone whose position is to be fixed, an elongated blade for insertion into the adjoining bone whose position is to be fixed relative to that of the tubular bone, a coupling element for fixing and locking the relative position of the nail and blade after their insertion, and a means for locating and positioning within the bones to-be-treated the nail and blade. Furthermore, the blade has a cross-sectional shape that is configured in consideration of the geometry of the bone into which the blade is to-be-placed and so as to enhance the ability of the blade to stabilize the bone, and these elements are configured so that they do not have to be decouple during the process of inserting the nail and blade. | 03-05-2009 |
20120215223 | Medical Devices for Use During Ankle Fusion Surgery - The present invention is directed to devices and methods that can be used in ankle surgery, especially ankle fusion surgery. | 08-23-2012 |
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20150051706 | Subtalar Joint Prostheseis and Its Method of Implantation - A subtalar joint prosthesis that is adapted to replace the natural subtalar joint that exists between a patient's talus and calcaneus bones includes talar and calcaneal components. Each of these is configured to have a shape that is herein defined as being a portion of the boundary surface of a frustum. Meanwhile, these components' inner surfaces are configured to: (a) generally follow the anatomic contour of the original joint surface to which each component is to be attached, and (b) minimize each components's average thickness, consistent with providing sufficient strength and rigidity for the components, so as to require minimum bone resection for the implantation of these components. | 02-19-2015 |
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20090276046 | PROSTHESIS FOR CORRECTION OF FLATFOOT DEFORMITY - An internal human prosthesis used in surgical procedures to treat flatfoot deformities, including pediatric, adult congenital, and adult acquired deformities. The internal prosthesis is inserted between the human talus and calcaneus bones. In a preferred embodiment, the prosthesis has a truncated conical shape along its long axis and a central bore through the center of its long axis. The base of the prosthesis includes a concave depression with a polygonal recess in its center. | 11-05-2009 |
20110224729 | HALLUX VALGUS REPAIRS USING SUTURE-BUTTON CONSTRUCT - A technique and associated instrumentation for correcting large intermetatarsal angles that result from hallux valgus. The system includes a button and a suture loop attached to the button. A suture strand is threaded through holes in the button to attach the button to the suture. The suture ends are then brought together (by being swaged, spliced or cinched together, for example) to form the suture loop comprising a continuous, uninterrupted suture loop with a single strand of swaged-together ends. The swaged-together ends may be attached to a suture passing instrument such as a K-wire (Kirschner wire) that may be further used to drill a hole through the first and second metatarsals. The swaged-together ends of the suture are then passed through the drill holes in the first and second metatarsals; and the ends of the suture are pulled until the button abuts the second metatarsal. The swaged together portion of the suture loop is then cut, and the free suture ends are passed through holes in another (second) button. The suture ends are pulled to adjust the first metatarsal to a correct intermetatarsal angle, and the first metatarsal is secured in place by tying the ends of the suture together against the second button. | 09-15-2011 |
20130138150 | HALLUX VALGUS REPAIRS USING SUTURE-BUTTON CONSTRUCT - A technique and associated instrumentation for correcting large intermetatarsal angles that result from hallux valgus. The system includes a button and a suture loop attached to the button. A suture strand is threaded through holes in the button to attach the button to the suture. The suture ends are then brought together (by being swaged, spliced or cinched together, for example) to form the suture loop comprising a continuous, uninterrupted suture loop with a single strand of swaged-together ends. The swaged-together ends may be attached to a suture passing instrument such as a K-wire (Kirschner wire) that may be further used to drill a hole through the first and second metatarsals. The swaged-together ends of the suture are then passed through the drill holes in the first and second metatarsals; and the ends of the suture are pulled until the button abuts the second metatarsal. The swaged together portion of the suture loop is then cut, and the free suture ends are passed through holes in another (second) button. The suture ends are pulled to adjust the first metatarsal to a correct intermetatarsal angle, and the first metatarsal is secured in place by tying the ends of the suture together against the second button. | 05-30-2013 |
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20100063853 | LIFE INSURANCE INVESTMENT FUND - A method of funding and managing at least one fund of a plurality of diverse life insurance policies issued by a plurality of investment grade carriers, the at least one fund providing enhanced risk adjusted investment return, the at least one fund having owners, the method being implemented on at least one computing device executing software processes, the software processes performing instructions comprising the steps of: selecting, using computer enabled instructions executed by the at least one computing device, the plurality of life insurance policies for the at least one fund without underwriting on the lives of the insured of each life insurance policy, said step of selecting based on a cash value analysis of the life insurance policies to identify those policies with viable projected cash value streams and that can be positively impacted to improve the cash value streams; acquiring, using computer enabled instructions executed by the at least one computing device, the selected plurality of life insurance policies for the at least one fund, wherein benefits of life insurance policy ownership pass to the owners of the at least one fund; and managing the fund, using computer enabled instructions executed by the at least one computing device, to maximize a financial risk adjusted investment rate of return that provides equity level returns with fixed income asset exposure. | 03-11-2010 |
20110040583 | LIFE INSURANCE INVESTMENT FUND - A method of funding and managing at least one fund of a plurality of diverse life insurance policies issued by a plurality of investment grade carriers, the at least one fund providing enhanced risk adjusted investment return, the at least one fund having owners, the method being implemented on at least one computing device executing software processes, the software processes performing instructions comprising the steps of: selecting, using computer enabled instructions executed by the at least one computing device, the plurality of life insurance policies for the at least one fund without underwriting on the lives of the insured of each life insurance policy, said step of selecting based on a cash value analysis of the life insurance policies to identify those policies with viable projected cash value streams and that can be positively impacted to improve the cash value streams; acquiring, using computer enabled instructions executed by the at least one computing device, the selected plurality of life insurance policies for the at least one fund, wherein benefits of life insurance policy ownership pass to the owners of the at least one fund; and managing the fund, using computer enabled instructions executed by the at least one computing device, to maximize a financial risk adjusted investment rate of return that provides equity level returns with fixed income asset exposure. | 02-17-2011 |