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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2003
Applicant:
Donald Dye, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Inventor:
Donald Dye, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Assignee:
Zimmer Austin, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F002/32 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for performing minimally invasive hip surgery for implanting a prosthetic acetabular component into a natural acetabulum. The method and apparatus include a driving instrument and driving guide for aligning and driving bone screws and screw-hole plugs. The instrument includes a working section and a driving section connected together with a joint connector. The joint connector enables the working and driving sections to move to various angles relative to each other.
Dye, Donald. (2005). Driving instrument with variably angled joint and extended tip and method of use for minimally invasive hip surgery (U.S. Patent No. 6875237). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/6875237
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