US 11,963,884 B2
Bodiless bone fusion device, apparatus and method
Joseph N. Logan, Trumbull, CT (US); Gary R. McLuen, Port Townsend, WA (US); and Daniel R. Baker, Seattle, WA (US)
Assigned to NeuroPro Technologies, Inc., Dallas, TX (US)
Filed by Neuropro Technologies, Inc., Modesto, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/872,305.
Application 16/119,809 is a division of application No. 14/210,094, filed on Mar. 13, 2014, granted, now 10,098,757.
Application 17/872,305 is a continuation of application No. 16/789,128, filed on Feb. 12, 2020, granted, now 11,399,956.
Application 16/789,128 is a continuation of application No. 16/119,809, filed on Aug. 31, 2018, granted, now 10,575,966.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/858,505, filed on Jul. 25, 2013.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/794,789, filed on Mar. 15, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2022/0354664 A1, Nov. 10, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61F 2/44 (2006.01); A61F 2/30 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/447 (2013.01) [A61F 2002/30266 (2013.01); A61F 2002/304 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30401 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30411 (2013.01); A61F 2002/305 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30505 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30556 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30563 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30565 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30579 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30785 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30825 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30904 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bodiless bone fusion device for insertion into a desired location comprising:
an extending mechanism including one or more extending blocks coupled with a positioning element such that movement of the positioning element causes the one or more extending blocks to move with respect to the positioning element;
a first plate;
a second plate, the first and second plates coupled with the one or more extending blocks such that when the one or more extending blocks move with respect to the positioning element, the first and second plates move along a path with respect to each other between a retracted position in which the first and second plates are adjacent to each other to an extended position in which the first and second plates are spread apart from each other; and
a lock having a body that contacts the positioning element to physically bias the rotational orientation of the positioning element into one of a plurality of positions.