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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 1996
Filed:
Nov. 02, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Eugene M Wolf, San Rafael, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ; A61F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
623 19 ; 623 22 ; 623 18 ;
Abstract
A prosthetic glenoid for use in the shoulder is comprised of a cup having three flanges. To prepare the shoulder for implantation of the cup, the glenoid fossa is reamed to a depth at which the acromion, coracoid, and lateral portion of the scapula form a tri-flanged configuration. The cup is proportioned to be positioned in the reamed glenoid fossa such that each of the three flanges of the cup corresponds to one of the three bones forming the tri-flanged configuration of bone.