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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2026
Filed:
May. 15, 2024
Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., Warsaw, IN (US);
Stanley Kyle Hayes, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Darren L. Davis, Knoxville, TN (US);
Patrick Ryan Keene, Youngsville, NC (US);
Cristian A. Capote, Memphis, TN (US);
John A. Hall, Germantown, TN (US);
Robert M. Loke, Memphis, TN (US);
WARSAW ORTHOPEDIC, INC., Warsaw, IN (US);
Abstract
A system including an implant and a tool for inserting and expanding the medical implant and locking the implant in place is disclosed. The medical implant may include an expandable body defined by a superior endplate and an inferior endplate that are hingedly coupled and may be expanded and lordosed. The implant may include a wedge disposed between the superior and inferior endplates that is configured to slide across a channel on inferior endplate and along an inclined groove on superior endplate. In at least some embodiments, an expansion screw is operative coupled to the threaded portion of the wedge that when expansion screw is rotated, the wedge is translated thereby expanding the implant.