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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
May. 18, 2015
Applicant:
Alphatec Spine, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Inventor:
Christopher M. Campbell, Temecula, CA (US);
Assignee:
Alphatec Spine, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/80 (2006.01); A61B 17/88 (2006.01); A61B 17/70 (2006.01); A61B 17/86 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/8033 (2013.01); A61B 17/7059 (2013.01); A61B 17/8042 (2013.01); A61B 17/8047 (2013.01); A61B 17/86 (2013.01); A61B 17/88 (2013.01); A61B 17/8023 (2013.01); A61B 17/8635 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00862 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00867 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention provides systems and methods for bone fixation and in particular, systems and methods for fusion of human cervical spine from the anterior aspect. To that end, some of the embodiments of the invention are directed to plate systems for aligning and maintaining adjacent cervical vertebrae in a selected spatial relationship during spinal fusion of such vertebrae.