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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2009
Jonathan M. Dewey, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Marcel F. Dvorak, Vancouver, CA;
Charles G. Fisher, Vancouver, CA;
Anthony J. Melkent, Memphis, TN (US);
Keith E. Miller, Germantown, TN (US);
Y. Raja Rampersaud, Toronto, CA;
Jonathan M. Dewey, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Marcel F. Dvorak, Vancouver, CA;
Charles G. Fisher, Vancouver, CA;
Anthony J. Melkent, Memphis, TN (US);
Keith E. Miller, Germantown, TN (US);
Y. Raja Rampersaud, Toronto, CA;
Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., Warsaw, IN (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention include implants and methods for connecting devices to bones, such as one or more endplates of vertebrae. Devices may include mechanisms for connecting to one or more vertebrae by extending portions of the devices through an aperture in a vertebral implant and expanding the implant within the one or more vertebrae. A fill material may be used to drive the expansion in some embodiments.