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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2019
Applicant:
Ortho Solutions Holdings Limited, Littleton, CO (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
ORTHO SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS LIMITED, Littleton, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/064 (2006.01); A61B 17/068 (2006.01); A61B 17/72 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/0644 (2013.01); A61B 17/068 (2013.01); A61B 17/0642 (2013.01); A61B 17/7291 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00862 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00867 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0641 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0645 (2013.01);
Abstract
The invention is a staple system comprising a primary staple having a bridge member including an opening and an offset and a first and second set of one or two joined to the bridge member and a secondary staple having a pair of legs and a bridge member received in the opening in the bridge member of the primary staple. In a second embodiment, the staple system includes a primary staple that receives a secondary staple having differing leg lengths and including a detent that inhibits the secondary staple from backing out and the shoulders of the staples are reinforced to account for compressive and torsional loads.