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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:
Sep. 21, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 05, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Joel L Rosenlicht, Manchester, CT (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ; A61C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
623 16 ; 623 11 ; 433 76 ; 433173 ; 433180 ;
Abstract
Apparatus comprising drill guide bodies and a pair of positioning bars, each such drill guide body being a body so configured and constructed as to define an imaginary axis through the length thereof and forming a pilot guide bore for guiding a drill substantially along said axis and at least one lateral bore substantially perpendicular to said pilot guide bore substantially along chord of said drill guide body disposed on opposite sides of the pilot guide bore, and methods of forming stents and rigid guides for guiding the drilling of holes into a patient's boney structure are disclosed.