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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2013
Providence Medical Technology, Inc., Lafayette, CA (US);
Bruce M. McCormack, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeffrey D. Smith, Clayton, CA (US);
Edward Liou, Pleasanton, CA (US);
David Michael Schummers, San Francisco, CA (US);
Providence Medical Technology, Inc., Pleasanton, CA (US);
Abstract
Implementations described and claimed herein provide a bone anchor deployment device. In one implementation, the bone anchor deployment device includes a flexible shaft adapted to bend along a deployment trajectory. A socket at the distal end of the flexible shaft is adapted to retain a bone anchor in a non-coaxial position. The bone anchor deployment device further includes a guide shaft having a lumen and a distal tip and an elongated tube extending through at least a portion of the guide shaft lumen and protruding from the distal tip of the guide shaft. A guide passage extends through a lumen of the elongated tube, and a channel is formed from a surface at a distal end of the guide passage. The channel is oriented at an angle relative to the guide passage and is adapted to cause the flexible shaft to bend.