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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2023
Medline Industries, Lp, Northfield, IL (US);
Samuel Nader, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Dinesh Koka, Winter Park, FL (US);
Natan Pheil, Highland Park, IL (US);
Medline Industries, LP, Northfield, IL (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is plate insertion tool useful with bone plates having a body and a pair of retainers, such as facing, inwardly extending fingers, for clamping a bone plate therebetween, and a pusher movable relative to the body between a fully disengaged position and a fully engaged position, the pusher in use engaging a shoulder of the compression plate. When the pusher is in an engaged position, the legs of the plate are temporarily tensioned by bending the legs away from the body of the plate. The body of the tool includes a pivot joint about which said pusher pivots. The tool may be used to temporarily tension the legs of the plate prior to insertion into holes in a bone.