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Bone Depth Gauge Design and Deployable Mechanism (Case No. 2024-185)
Summary: Researchers in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery at UCLA have developed a novel bone depth gauge and deployable mechanism for orthopaedic screw insertion. Background: Orthopaedic screws are typically used in surgeries to treat fractures that may have been caused intentionally, such as for tumor resection or joint replacement, or...
Published: 8/21/2025   |   Inventor(s): Ashley Kita, Eric Smith, Rhorie Kerr
Keywords(s): bone health, Invasiveness Of Surgical Procedures, Orthopaedics, Orthopedics and Prosthetics (O & P), Surgical Instrument, surgical tool
Category(s): Diagnostic Markers > Aging, Mechanical > Sensors, Medical Devices, Medical Devices > Surgical Tools, Therapeutics > Orthopaedics, Therapeutics > Musculoskeletal Disease, Therapeutics > Inflammation And Inflammatory Diseases
Nanoparticulate Mineralized Collagen Glycosaminoglycan Scaffold with an Anti-Resorption Factor (UCLA Cases 2018-585, 2021-364)
SUMMARY Researchers in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and the Institute of Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (UIUC) have developed novel methods to incorporate anti-resorption factor into nanoparticulate mineralized collagen glycosaminoglycan scaffold to maximize...
Published: 9/10/2025   |   Inventor(s): Justine Lee, Brendan Harley, Timothy Miller, Xiaoyan Ren
Keywords(s): bone health, Medical Devices and Materials, Osteo, Surgical Tools
Category(s): Medical Devices, Medical Devices > Surgical Tools