Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Surgical implant with porous region
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Application No.: US14571677Application Date: 2014-12-16
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Publication No.: US10420597B2Publication Date: 2019-09-24
- Inventor: Chris Papangelou , G. Joshua Karnes
- Applicant: ARTHREX, INC.
- Applicant Address: US FL Naples
- Assignee: Arthrex, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Arthrex, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US FL Naples
- Agency: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
- Main IPC: A61B17/80
- IPC: A61B17/80 ; A61B17/86 ; A61B17/04 ; A61F2/28 ; A61F2/08 ; A61B17/70 ; A61B17/00

Abstract:
A surgical implant according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a body that extends along a longitudinal axis between a drive head and a tip. The body includes a cannulation disposed about the longitudinal axis and extending from the tip to the drive head, a solid thread that wraps around the body and a porous region circumferentially extending about the body between adjacent revolutions of the solid thread. In another embodiment, the surgical implant may include a wedge having at least one porous region that extends continuously around a wedge body between an inner wall and an outer wall.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160166301A1 SURGICAL IMPLANT WITH POROUS REGION Public/Granted day:2016-06-16
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