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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2014
K2m, Inc., Leesburg, VA (US);
Allen Carl, Slingerlands, NY (US);
Josef K. Winkler, Wayland, MA (US);
Robert F. Beisel, Robesonia, PA (US);
Spanky A. Raymond, Uniontown, OH (US);
Daniel S. Savage, Brecksville, OH (US);
Jason J. Gromek, Brecksville, OH (US);
Carl M. Nilsson, Moreland Hills, OH (US);
Silicon Valley Bank, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention features new methods, apparatuses and devices for fixing adjacent bone segments, segments of a bony structure and adjacent vertebrate of a spine. The methods, apparatuses and devices utilize a new apparatus for forming a channel in a surface of the bone or bony structure segments or adjacent vertebra or a channel submerged within the bone or bony structure segments or adjacent vertebra. In more particular embodiments such apparatuses and methods including forming an arcuate channel and which channel can receive therein a curved rod or implant member, which also preferably is arcuate, and avoids the associated problems with prior cage or straight rod and screw systems. Also featured are systems, apparatuses and methods for repairing, replacing or augmenting the nucleus and/or annulus of a disc.