Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Orthopedic implants with variable angle bone screw locking
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Application No.: US15256679Application Date: 2016-09-05
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Publication No.: US10966765B2Publication Date: 2021-04-06
- Inventor: Garrett D. Lauf , Paul C. Zakelj , Matthew S. Coyne
- Applicant: Life Spine, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US IL Huntley
- Assignee: Life Spine, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Life Spine, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Huntley
- Agency: Foley & Lardner LLP
- Main IPC: A61B17/80
- IPC: A61B17/80 ; A61B17/86 ; A61B17/70

Abstract:
An orthopedic implant has a plate and bone screws. Configured bone screw pockets of the plate provide variable angling and positional locking of a received bone screw relative. Each bone screw includes distal threads, a neck, and a dual threaded head. The plate has a bone screw pocket on a distal end, a bone screw pocket on a proximal end, and a strut extending between the two bone screw pockets. The bone screw pockets are at least generally cup shaped for receipt of a bone screw. The lower periphery of the opening of each bone screw pocket has an arrangement of configured prongs with configured openings to receive threading on the underside of the dual threaded head of the bone screw. The prongs can preferably, but not necessarily, deform slightly and grab onto the threading of the bone screw head to lock the bone screw in the bone screw pocket. Each prong can act independently.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170065312A1 Orthopedic Implants With Variable Angle Bone Screw Locking Public/Granted day:2017-03-09
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