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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:
Mar. 28, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2015
Medtronic PS Medical, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
John Xinghai Wang, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Hung Van Bach, Arlington, TX (US);
Donna J. Burnette, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Walter Raymond Blackwell, Keller, TX (US);
Weiguo Chen, Bedford, TX (US);
S. Shane Dexter, Keller, TX (US);
Vikram August Garadi, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Kevin L. Haney, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Joseph William Lopez, North Richland Hills, TX (US);
R. Mitchell Sherry, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Paul Cihak, Grapevine, TX (US);
Durrell Tidwell, Burleson, TX (US);
Medtronic PS Medical, Inc., Forth Worth, TX (US);
Abstract
A surgical cutting blade for cutting bone material when the blade is coupled to a hand-held surgical saw includes a distal portion comprising a plurality of cutting teeth, a shank portion adjacent the distal portion, and a proximal portion adjacent the shank portion. The proximal portion may include a longitudinally extending slot having a proximal opening. The slot may be shaped to receive a portion of the surgical saw through the proximal opening. The proximal portion may have a plurality of deflectable fingers respectively separated from a plurality of main body portions by respective gaps. The plurality of deflectable fingers may extend adjacent the longitudinally extending slot, and may deflect into the gaps to increase and decrease a width of a portion of the slot.