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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2020
Applicant:
Degen Medical, Inc., Florence, SC (US);
Inventor:
Kyle Atwood, Darlington, SC (US);
Assignee:
DeGen Medical, Inc., Florence, SC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/44 (2006.01); A61F 2/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/4425 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30556 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30891 (2013.01); A61F 2002/443 (2013.01);
Abstract
The description relates to an expandable intervertebral spacer configured to engage an intervertebral disk. An example expandable spacer includes a main body, a first endplate, a second endplate, a driving member, a plurality of pins, and an actuation member. The expandable spacer is configured to transition from a first configuration to a second configuration by various structures (e.g., steps, faceted surfaces, curved surfaces, multi-faceted portions) defined on the first endplate, the second endplate, and the driving member.