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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2024
Method of attaching tooling to the receiver of a bone anchor assembly for minimally invasive surgery
Roger P. Jackson, Prairie Village, KS (US);
Roger P. Jackson, Prairie Village, KS (US);
Lawrence E. Guerra, Mission, KS (US);
William R. Hendricks, Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A method of assembling a bone anchor system for securing an elongate rod to a head of a shank includes positioning a lower attachment portion of tooling onto an upper end of a receiver having a pair of integral upright arms extending upward from a base portion. The lower attachment portion includes a discontinuous inner convex cylindrical surface of a downwardly-opening discontinuous recess that is closely received by inner concave cylindrical surfaces extending downward from arcuate top inner edges of the upright arms, simultaneous with a pair of opposing inwardly-directed protrusions of the lower attachment portion below the recess being closely received within horizontally-extending tool engagement grooves formed below upper outer surfaces the upright arms.
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