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US 10610273
Bone plate with transverse screw
Current assignee: In2Bones USA LLC
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Patent summary
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Patent Overview — US 10,610,273 B2
Title: Bone plate with transverse screw
Patent number: US 10,610,273 B2
Application number: US 15/795,039
Publication of application: US 2018/0125548 A1
Inventors: Alan G. Taylor; Rebecca Hawkins Wahl; Casey Chambers
Assignee: In2Bones USA LLC
Priority date: 2016-11-07
Filing date: 2017-10-26
Grant/publication date: 2020-04-07
Adjusted expiration (as listed): 2038-06-09
Status listed: Active
Purpose
The disclosure relates to securing bones together and, more particularly, to an apparatus for fusing and compressing bones of the human body. A fusion bone plate implant is used with fasteners to generate compression and stability at a bone interface, holding bones or bone fragments in alignment while they fuse. The plate is described as usable in the foot, ankle, hand, wrist and other body portions.
Plain-language scope (from the supplied excerpt)
The assembly includes an elongate plate of semi-rigid material (e.g., biocompatible metal or PEEK) with one or more fixation apertures for fasteners coupled to adjacent bones, and a slanted aperture that receives a threaded bone screw at a predetermined angle to a plane of the plate. The bone screw has a head portion and a shank with distal threads and a proximal smooth portion; the distal threads engage a drilled hole across the fusion site while the smooth portion passes through bone with little resistance. The slanted aperture has a smooth countersunk surface and one or more teeth that cooperate with the screw head to compress the adjacent bones. The predetermined angle may be an oblique angle, ranging between substantially 35 and 45 degrees. A raised portion may be disposed around the slanted aperture, and around each fixation aperture, on the plate underside.
What the excerpt does not establish
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