Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Expandable interbody device system and method
- Patent Title (中): 可扩展的体内器件系统和方法
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Application No.: US13678238Application Date: 2012-11-15
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Publication No.: US09526627B2Publication Date: 2016-12-27
- Inventor: Derek A. Tabor , Larry G. Hickey
- Applicant: Exactech, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US FL Gainesville
- Assignee: Exactech, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Exactech, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US FL Gainesville
- Agency: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.
- Agent Eric B. Meyertons
- Main IPC: A61F2/44
- IPC: A61F2/44 ; A61F2/46 ; A61F2/30

Abstract:
Provided is an intervertebral implant to be implanted within an intervertebral space between endplates of adjacent vertebra during use. The implant includes an upper member having an inferior surface including an upper guide track and a superior surface to contact an endplate of an upper one of the adjacent vertebra during use, a lower member having a superior surface including a lower guide track and an inferior surface to contact an endplate of a lower one of the adjacent vertebra during use, and an insert having a superior surface including an upper guide rail to engage the upper guide track during use and an inferior surface including a lower guide rail to engage the lower guide track during use. Engagement of the upper and lower guide rails with the upper and lower guide tracks, respectively, guides insertion of the insert between the upper and lower members during use, and insertion of the insert between the upper and lower members facilitates expansion of the intervertebral implant.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130158667A1 EXPANDABLE INTERBODY DEVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD Public/Granted day:2013-06-20
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