US 11,666,456 B2
Bone graft delivery loading assembly
Spencer Popejoy, Ringwood, NJ (US); and Joshua Stein, Montvale, NJ (US)
Assigned to Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC, Kalamazoo, MI (US)
Filed by Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC, Kalamazoo, MI (US)
Filed on Oct. 30, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/84,718.
Application 17/084,718 is a continuation of application No. 16/267,492, filed on Feb. 5, 2019, granted, now 10,857,001.
Application 16/267,492 is a continuation of application No. 15/241,339, filed on Aug. 19, 2016, granted, now 10,231,846, issued on Mar. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0052397 A1, Feb. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. A61F 2/46 (2006.01); A61B 17/88 (2006.01); A61B 17/70 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/4601 (2013.01) [A61B 17/7094 (2013.01); A61B 17/8822 (2013.01); A61B 17/8833 (2013.01); A61F 2002/4635 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of loading bone graft into a bone graft delivery system, the method comprising:
coupling a container having the bone graft therein to a loading member;
positioning a cannula within a passageway of the loading member;
advancing an amount of the bone graft from the container through the loading member to the cannula;
viewing the cannula through at least one slot formed along a length of the loading member to determine how much bone graft has entered the cannula; and
removing the cannula from the loading member after a predetermined volume of bone graft has entered the cannula.