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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2015
Applicant:
Jeffrey Scott Smith, Granbury, TX (US);
Inventor:
Jeffrey Scott Smith, Granbury, TX (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/70 (2006.01); A61B 17/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/7085 (2013.01); A61B 17/7032 (2013.01); A61B 17/7083 (2013.01); A61B 17/7086 (2013.01); A61B 2017/564 (2013.01);
Abstract
Rod delivery tools, methods for delivering a connecting rod of a pedicle screw system into seating slots of at least first and second long arm screw towers of a pedicle screw system, and a rod reduction tool and related methods for urging a distal leading end of a connecting rod and an opening of a long arm screw tower into alignment with one another, where the two are initially misaligned.