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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2005
Randolf Von Oepen, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Randolf von Oepen, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
DEGIMA GmbH, Pinneberg, DE;
Abstract
Disclosed is a fastener that can be mounted to a bone of a patient and can foreshorten and swell of a desired period of time. The fastener can include a head portion and a body portion extending from the head portion. At least one of the head portion and the body portion has a first width that changes to a second width greater than the first width and collectively the head portion and the body portion have a first length that changes to a second length shorter than the first length upon the head portion and the body portion being exposed to a temperature below a glass transition temperature of a polymeric material forming the head portion and the body portion.