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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2017
Acumed Llc, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Mark B. Sommers, Beaverton, OR (US);
Roy Werner Sanders, Tampa, FL (US);
James G. Falkner, Jr., Beaverton, OR (US);
Caleb Abraham Martin, Beaverton, OR (US);
Zachary James Stroh, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Acumed LLC, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Abstract
Orthopedic systems and methods for installing an implant and/or boring a bone bicortically. The system may include a drill having a proximal boring portion configured to bore a larger hole in a bone more efficiently when the drill rotates in a first direction compared to an opposite second direction, and a distal boring portion configured to bore a smaller hole in the bone more efficiently when the drill rotates in the second direction. The implant may be configured to be implanted at least partially in the bone, such that a first region of the implant is located in the larger hole and a second region of the implant is located in the smaller hole. In an exemplary method, the larger hole and the smaller hole may be bored in the bone's near cortex and far cortex, respectively, by a shaft and a nose of the drill rotated in opposite directions.