Boss Logic, LLC

Other

Nuvasive, Inc.

Knapp Investment Company Limited

Scott D Shoemaker

Daniel D Shoemaker

Lee Thomas O'Donnell

James P Broder

Robert German

Scott Lish

Thomas W Preece

Robert R Lang

Andrew Schafer

Charles Jamedson Glynn

A positioning device for positioning an orthopedic implant in a patient during a surgical procedure includes a first orthopedic fastener and a device body. The orthopedic fastener penetrates into a bone of the patient to secure the orthopedic implant to the bone. The device body is removably positionable at least partially subcutaneously within the patient. The device body can retract tissue of the patient and includes a first fastener guide that guides positioning of the first orthopedic fastener relative to the bone of the patient. The device body releasably secures the orthopedic implant during positioning of the orthopedic implant. The positioning device can also include an implant attacher that removably secures the orthopedic implant to the device body. The implant attacher movably extends through the device body along an attacher axis.

System and method for surgical implant positioning and fixation

A social media computer system includes a database that is in network communication with a first mobile phone and a second mobile phone. The database receives a first set of data from the first mobile phone and a second set of data from the second mobile phone. The database allows the second mobile phone to access the first set of data only after the second mobile phone authorizes the first mobile phone via the database to access the second set of data. A portion of the first set of data accessed by the second mobile phone can be automatically or manually synchronized to the memory of the second mobile phone. A user of the second mobile phone can control the portion of the first set of data synchronized to the second mobile phone. The first set of data can include video, audio, geographic location, visual and textual data. The first mobile phone has a memory, and a portion of the second set of data can be synchronized to the memory of the first mobile phone.

System and method for secure reciprocal exchange of data

A paddle assembly includes a tubular shaft that is configured to be coupled to a blade of the paddle assembly. The shaft has a shaft length, a first flexural rigidity at a first location along the shaft length and a second flexural rigidity at a second location along the shaft length. The ratio of the first flexural rigidity to the second flexural rigidity can be at least approximately 1.20. The shaft is substantially linear along the shaft length. The shaft has a shaft midpoint. The first location and the second location are substantially equidistant from and on opposite sides of the shaft midpoint. The shaft can have a tubular configuration. The shaft has a plurality of layers of material at each of the first location and the second location. The orientation of the layers of material at the first location is different than the orientation of materials at the second location. A modulus of elasticity of the materials used to form the shaft varies along the shaft length. The shaft can be formed at least partially from carbon fiber materials.

Paddle assembly

A social media computer system and method for transmission of data between a first mobile phone and a second mobile phone includes a database that is configured to be in network communication with the first mobile phone and the second mobile phone. The database is configured to receive a first set of data input by the first mobile phone and a second set of data input by the second mobile phone. The database is configured to allow the second mobile phone to access at least a portion of the first set of data only after the second mobile phone authorizes the first mobile phone via the database to access the second set of data. The database can include a plurality of privacy levels that are alternately selectable by the first mobile phone to control the amount of the first set of data that is accessible by the second mobile phone. The first set of data can include one or more of video data, audio data, geographic location information, visual data and textual data, input into the database via the first mobile phone.

A system for transmission of data between a first device operated by a first user and a second device operated by a second user includes a database that is in network communication with the first device and the second device. The database receives a first set of data input by the first user and a second set of data input by the second user. The database allows the second user to access a first portion of the first set of data only after the second user authorizes the first user via the database to access a first portion of the second set of data. Additionally, the database can allow the second user to have access to the first portion of the first set of data from the database only after the first user authorizes the second user via the database to access the first portion of the first set of data from the database. At least one of the first portion of the first set of data and the first portion of the second set of data includes video data, audio data, geographic location information, visual data and/or textual data. At least one of the first device and the second device can be a mobile phone.

The present application describes a pedicle fixation system and methods for correcting deformities of the spine and fixing the corrected portion of the spine in a corrected position. The disclosed system and associated methods include at least one pedicle screw in which a receiver portion of the pedicle screw is coupled to a screw portion of the pedicle screw in a manner such that the receiver portion is initially movable relative to the screw portion in a polyaxial fashion and subsequently lockable relative to the screw portion prior to locking a rod in the housing. Instruments for locking the receiver portion relative to the screw portion are also described.

Systems and methods for correcting spinal deformities

A system for transmission of data between a first device operated by a first user and a second device includes a database that receives a first set of data input by the first user and a second set of data input by the second user. In one embodiment, the first set of data includes an immediate mode of access and/or one or more future modes of access of the first user which correlate to one or more specific time periods during which the future mode of access will become the immediate mode of access. Additionally, the first set of data can include a time-dependent schedule of the future mode of access of the first user.

A system for transmission of mode of access information between a first device operated by a first user and a second device operated by a second user includes a database that is in network communication with the first device and the second device. The database stores a plurality of different modes of access for contacting the first user that are devoid of alpha-numeric identifiers specific to the first user. The database allows the first user to select one of the modes of access as a current mode of access of the first user. The current mode of access of the first user can be communicated to the second device once the second device queries the database. The current mode of access of the first user can be selected from the group consisting of mobile phone, text message and electronic mail. The current mode of access of the first user can change automatically over time according to a schedule input into the database by the first user. In some embodiments, at least one of the first device and the second device is a web-based mobile phone.

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Poway, CA, United States of America

Scott D Shoemaker