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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2022
Applicant:
Globus Medical, Inc., Audubon, PA (US);
Inventor:
Jeffrey David Gordon, Phoenixville, PA (US);
Assignee:
Globus Medical, Inc., Audubon, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/44 (2006.01); A61B 17/58 (2006.01); A61B 17/70 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/7055 (2013.01); A61B 17/58 (2013.01); A61B 17/7016 (2013.01); A61B 17/7022 (2013.01); A61B 17/7053 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention generally relates to methods and devices for treatment of spinal deformity, and in particular to the utilization of at least one implant to either maintain the position of at least one vertebra of a patient to prevent increase in abnormal spinal curvature, to slow progression of abnormal curvature, or to impose at least one corrective displacement and/or rotation on at least one vertebra of a patient so as to incrementally correct abnormal spinal curvature.