MEDOS INTERNATIONAL SARL Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160135848 | Locking Compression Members for Use With Bone Anchor Assemblies and Methods - Various exemplary methods and devices are provided for fixing bone anchors to bone. In general, the methods and devices can allow for a bone anchor to be fixed to a bone at a desired angle to a surface of the bone. In an exemplary embodiment, a bone anchor assembly is provided that includes a bone anchor configured to engage bone, a receiver member for seating a head of the bone anchor, and a compression member for securing the bone anchor at fixed angle with respect to the receiver member when the compression member is seated within the receiver member. Corresponding engagement features of the compression member and the receiver member can be engaged in a secured configuration to inhibit or prevent removal of the compression cap from the receiver member and optionally to substantially prevent longitudinal and/or rotational movement of the compression member with respect to the receiver member. | 05-19-2016 |
20160000472 | BONE ANCHORS - A cannulated bone anchor assembly includes a bone anchor, a receiver member for receiving a spinal fixation element to be coupled to the bone anchor, and a closure mechanism to fix the spinal fixation element with respect to the receiver member. The bone anchor includes a distal shaft having a first threaded section distal to a proximal head, a second threaded section distal to and adjacent the first threaded section, and a third threaded section distal to and adjacent the second threaded section. The first threaded section having a constant major and minor diameter. The second threaded section having a tapering major and minor diameter. The third threaded section having a tapering major diameter and a constant minor diameter. | 01-07-2016 |
20150088198 | SELF-ASSEMBLING SUTURE ANCHOR ASSEMBLY, SURGICAL KIT, AND SURGICAL REPAIR METHOD - A suture anchor assembly includes a main suture strand, a plurality of suture arms, and a plurality of suture anchor elements connected to the main suture strand by a suture arm. The suture anchor elements are configured to rest against a cortex of a bone to provide an anchor when they are in a deployed configuration. The suture anchor assemblies can be employed in place of or in addition to traditional suture anchors. The assemblies, kits, and methods described herein can be utilized in a variety of procedures and locations in the body where anchoring a graft or tissue adjacent a bone is desired, including, for example, rotator cuff repair and ligament (e.g., the anterior cruciate ligament or ACL) reconstruction and/or repair. | 03-26-2015 |
20140276355 | Co-administration of Light and a Therapeutic Agent to Stimulate Dysfunctional Mitochondria Affected By a Neurological Disorder - A method and device for stimulating a dysfunctional mitochondria in a human brain afflicted with a neurological disorder by stimulating the dysfunctional mitochondria at more than one level of its electron transport chain by co-administering more than one type of external stimulation such as the co-administration of both light and a therapeutic agent such as vitamin K2. | 09-18-2014 |
20140243933 | Modulation of the Activity of Mitochondria in Brown Adipose Tissue By Photobiomodulation for the Treatment of Obesity - A method for treating obesity by activating non-shivering thermogenesis in mitochondria of targeted brown adipose tissue. A photobiomodulation device including one or more light sources is provided. The mitochondria of the targeted brown adipose tissue is photobiomodulated by exposure to light produced by the light source at a wavelength that modulates photoactivity of an electron transport chain and increases proton transfer across a membrane of the mitochondria of the targeted brown adipose tissue towards an intern space of the mitochondria, without increasing production of adenosine triphosphate. | 08-28-2014 |
20130330498 | THREE DIMENSIONAL PACKAGING FOR MEDICAL IMPLANTS - Implantable medical devices, and methods of coating same, including a plurality of components disposed on a substrate, and a low surface energy layer deposited as a liquid over at least a first portion of the components and the substrate, the low surface energy layer becoming solidified after deposition and conforming to at least the first portion of the components. The devices further include a biocompatible hermetic coating conforming to and sealingly covering at least a portion of the low surface energy layer. | 12-12-2013 |
20110040206 | IN SITU OFFSET COMPENSATION FOR PRESSURE SENSORS - A pressure sensor having a substrate and a first, deformable membrane, partially supported by the substrate, which generates a first sensor reading when deformed by pressure. A second membrane is contiguous to the first membrane. When the second membrane is energized, it deforms the first membrane to alter the first sensor reading. | 02-17-2011 |
20110039050 | ULTRA-THIN MULTI-LAYER PROTECTION - An implantable medical device including a plurality of components on a substrate, and a biocompatible multi-layer coating applied by vapour deposition to conform to and sealingly cover at least a portion of the components and/or the substrate. The coating is applied in at least two sets, each set having first, second and third layers. At least one of the first, second and third layers consist essentially of a polymer such as parylene and at least one of the other two layers of the set consist essentially of inorganic material such that each layer differs in at least one diffusion barrier property from the other layers in the set and adds to an overall barrier effect of the coating. | 02-17-2011 |
20110038131 | PACKAGING WITH ACTIVE PROTECTION LAYER - An implantable medical device including a plurality of components on a substrate, and a biocompatible multi-layer coating applied at least in part by vapour deposition to conform to and sealingly cover at least a portion of the components and/or the substrate. The coating is applied in at least two sets of layers, wherein each set has at least one layer formed by dissociation of a polymeric precursor and then deposition of that precursor, and another layer is a biocompatible liquid. | 02-17-2011 |
20110038130 | PLASMA ENHANCED POLYMER ULTRA-THIN MULTI-LAYER PACKAGING - An implantable medical device including a plurality of components on a substrate, and a biocompatible multi-layer polymeric coating applied by vapour deposition to conform to and sealingly cover at least a portion of the components and/or the substrate. The coating is applied in at least two pairs of layers, wherein each pair has one layer formed by dissociation of a precursor and then simple deposition of that precursor, and the other layer is formed by at least one of plasma dissociation and excitation of the precursor to form a plasma-enhanced precursor, and then deposition of the plasma-enhanced precursor. | 02-17-2011 |