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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2002
Applicants:
Daniel Baumgartner, Oensingen, CH;
Adrian Burri, Brig, CH;
Claude Mathieu, Bettlach, CH;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Synthes USA, LLC, West Chester, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An implant, in particular an intervertebral implant, comprising (A) two articulating parts () having each a central axis (), each a curved slide surface () intersecting the central axes (), and each an axially outermost end () that can be connected to a bone, where (B) the slide surfaces () are curved and displaceable one on the other, where (D) the second articulating part () is rotatable about two mutually skewed axes of rotation () relative to the first articulating part ().