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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2008
Applicants:
Jongsoo Park, Los Altos, CA (US);
Tzishing Jesse Lim, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jongsoo Park, Los Altos, CA (US);
Tzishing Jesse Lim, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/70 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Posterior spinal stabilization devices that engage vertebral structures of at least two verterbrae and increase the stability between the two vertebrae. In some embodiments the stabilization devices engage laminae of at least two vertebrae. The devices can be adapted, however, to engage at least one of a variety of vertebral structures (e.g., spinous process, lamina, transverse process, etc.) of a plurality of vertebrae to decrease vertebral motion between at least two vertebrae.