Keith A Orr

US Patent:

7097195, Aug 29, 2006

Filed:

Jun 27, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/608852

Inventors:

Keith M. Orr - Boston MA, US
Gordon Hay - Stowe VT, US
Edward Kunkel - Newton MA, US

International Classification:

A63C 9/02

US Classification:

280628, 280 1424

Abstract:

A binding system is provided that is effective for use on recreational device, such as a snowboard, and that is adapted to mate to, or that includes, a boot or other footwear worn by the user. In general, the binding system includes a base plate for support a rider's foot, and a connecting element for mating the base plate to an elongate board, e. g. , a snowboard. The connecting element is effective to mate the base plate to a snowboard about a fixed central axis and to allow pivotal movement of the base plate about the central axis with respect to the snowboard. The binding system can also include at least one compression member mated to the base plate and/or to a snowboard. The compression member(s) are effective to compress between the base plate and the snowboard in response to a force applied to at least one of the base plate and the snowboard. The binding system is particularly advantageous in that the compression members provide enhanced biomechanical operation, absorbing chatter and shock, and increasing mobility. Moreover, there is no relative motion between the base plate and the boot, so the rider's ability to control the snowboard is not adversely affected.

US Patent:

7444765, Nov 4, 2008

Filed:

Dec 2, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/292974

Inventors:

Gordon Graham Hay - Marblehead MA, US
Keith M. Orr - Boston MA, US
Derek Carroll - Marblehead MA, US

Assignee:

Bivab, LLC - Marblehead MA

International Classification:

A43B 13/00

US Classification:

36 25R, 36 30 R, 36 31, 36142

Abstract:

A footwear sole structure for dynamically directing interacting forces between a user's foot and the footwear during a stride, including an inner sole located adjacent the user's foot, a mid-sole located between the inner sole and the footwear, and a rib ribbon force transfer structure located between the inner sole and the mid-sole wherein the rib ribbon includes a plurality of ribs spaced along and transversely to a spine axis and attached to a longitudinally extending spine. The rib ribbon resists flexing about an axis parallel to the spine axis and allows a relatively greater degree of flexing about an axis transverse to the spine axis and the rib ribbon is located along a path between the inner and mid-soles to dynamically direct the interacting forces between a user's foot and the footwear as the user's weight shifts from a heel to a toe position during a stride.

US Patent:

7533891, May 19, 2009

Filed:

Aug 28, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/511013

Inventors:

Keith M. Orr - Boston MA, US
Gordon Hay - Stowe VT, US
Edward Kunkel - Newton MA, US

Assignee:

Bivab, LLC. - Marblehead MA

International Classification:

A63C 9/00

US Classification:

280 1424, 280626, 280628, 280629, 280 1422

Abstract:

A binding system is provided that is effective for use on recreational device, such as a snowboard, and that is adapted to mate to, or that includes, a boot or other footwear worn by the user. In general, the binding system includes a base plate for support a rider's foot, and a connecting element for mating the base plate to an elongate board, e. g. , a snowboard. The connecting element is effective to mate the base plate to a snowboard about a fixed central axis and to allow pivotal movement of the base plate about the central axis with respect to the snowboard. The binding system can also include at least one compression member mated to the base plate and/or to a snowboard. The compression member(s) are effective to compress between the base plate and the snowboard in response to a force applied to at least one of the base plate and the snowboard. The binding system is particularly advantageous in that the compression members provide enhanced biomechanical operation, absorbing chatter and shock, and increasing mobility. Moreover, there is no relative motion between the base plate and the boot, so the rider's ability to control the snowboard is not adversely affected.

US Patent:

7536794, May 26, 2009

Filed:

May 19, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/914995

Inventors:

Gordon G. Hay - Marblehead MA, US
Keith M. Orr - Boston MA, US
Derek Carroll - Marblehead MA, US

Assignee:

Bivab, LLC - Marblehead MA

International Classification:

A43D 1/02
A61B 5/107

US Classification:

33 3B, 33515, 33286

Abstract:

A foot measuring or sizing device comprising a base platform, a heel support (), an alignment fin () and a measurement scale (). The heel support is pivotally connected to the base platform and the foot fin being slidably along an elongate slot formed in the base platform to facilitate alignment of the foot to be measured with a central axis or plane of the foot measuring or sizing device prior to determining a length, measuring a width and/or determining the amount of lift or adjustment of the foot to be measured is necessary to properly support a foot while using footwear.

US Patent:

7594917, Sep 29, 2009

Filed:

May 12, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/436038

Inventors:

Gregory R. Whittaker - Stoneham MA, US
Eric Hyman - Ashland MA, US
Keith Orr - Boston MA, US
Thomas Callahan - South Hadley MA, US

Assignee:

Ethicon, Inc. - Somerville NJ

International Classification:

A61B 17/60

US Classification:

606 98, 606 64, 606 96

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for fixing a ligament in a bone tunnel by cross-pinning the ligament in the bone tunnel.

US Patent:

7611473, Nov 3, 2009

Filed:

Sep 11, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/661460

Inventors:

Robert Boock - Braintree MA, US
Nathan S. Cauldwell - Attleboro MA, US
Keith M. Orr - Boston MA, US

Assignee:

Ethicon, Inc. - Somerville NJ

International Classification:

A61B 10/00
A61B 17/00
A61B 17/32
A61B 17/14
A61B 17/20

US Classification:

600564, 600565, 600569, 600570, 600571, 600562, 606 80, 606167, 606180, 604 22

Abstract:

Devices and methods are provided for extracting and macerating tissue, and optionally for depositing the tissue onto a tissue scaffold. The device generally includes an outer tube having a substantially open distal end that is adapted to be placed on and preferably to form a seal with a tissue surface, and a shaft rotatably disposed within the outer tube and movable between a first, proximal position in which the shaft is fully disposed within the outer tube, and a second, distal position in which a portion of a distal end of the shaft extends through the opening in the distal end of the outer tube. The device also includes a tissue harvesting tip formed on the distal end of the shaft that is effective to excise a tissue sample when the shaft is moved to the distal position, and a cutting member that is coupled to the shaft at a position proximal to the tissue harvesting tip. The cutting member is effective to macerate a tissue sample excised by the tissue harvesting tip.

US Patent:

7794408, Sep 14, 2010

Filed:

Mar 28, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/402266

Inventors:

Francois Binette - Weymouth MA, US
Julia Hwang - Wayland MA, US
Keith M. Orr - Boston MA, US
Steve Lepke - Wakefield MA, US
Eric Hyman - Ashland MA, US
Ashley Perkins - Natick MA, US

Assignee:

Ethicon, Inc. - Somerville NJ

International Classification:

A61B 10/00

US Classification:

600562, 604187

Abstract:

A biological tissue collection device is provided having a housing with a fluid-retaining inner chamber adapted to retain a bioimplantable, fluid permeable tissue scaffold. The scaffold is preferably retained in the housing in such a way that the scaffold separates the fluid-retaining inner chamber into a first chamber and a second chamber. The collection device further includes a driver mechanism coupled to the housing and effective to create a force within the housing to displace fluid disposed within the second chamber to the first chamber. As the fluid is displaced, any biological tissue deposited on the tissue scaffold is dispersed within the fluid. Removal of the force enables the fluid to return to the second chamber and thereby deposit the tissue onto the tissue scaffold. In an exemplary embodiment, the tissue is deposited evenly onto the tissue scaffold.

US Patent:

7998086, Aug 16, 2011

Filed:

Sep 29, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/569165

Inventors:

Robert J. Boock - Braintree MA, US
Nathan S. Cauldwell - Attleboro MA, US
Keith M. Orr - Boston MA, US

Assignee:

Depuy Mitek, Inc. - Raynham MA

International Classification:

A61B 10/00

US Classification:

600566, 600562, 600564, 600565, 600567, 600568

Abstract:

Devices and methods are provided for extracting and macerating tissue, and optionally for depositing the tissue onto a tissue scaffold. The device generally includes an outer tube having a substantially open distal end that is adapted to be placed on and preferably to form a seal with a tissue surface, and a shaft rotatably disposed within the outer tube and movable between a first, proximal position in which the shaft is fully disposed within the outer tube, and a second, distal position in which a portion of a distal end of the shaft extends through the opening in the distal end of the outer tube. The device also includes a tissue harvesting tip formed on the distal end of the shaft that is effective to excise a tissue sample when the shaft is moved to the distal position, and a cutting member that is coupled to the shaft at a position proximal to the tissue harvesting tip. The cutting member is effective to macerate a tissue sample excised by the tissue harvesting tip.