US 11,744,716 B2
Intervertebral implants
Samuel Jebsen, Arvada, CO (US); Ryan Watson, Boulder, CO (US); Marc Bereau, Saint-Andre-les-Vergers (FR); and Edouard Jouan, Lavau (FR)
Assigned to Zimmer Biomet Spine, Inc., Westminster, CO (US)
Filed by Zimmer Biomet Spine, Inc., Westminster, CO (US)
Filed on Oct. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/512,398.
Application 17/512,398 is a continuation of application No. 16/705,556, filed on Dec. 6, 2019, granted, now 11,179,247.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/830,863, filed on Apr. 8, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/778,543, filed on Dec. 12, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0071773 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. A61F 2/44 (2006.01); A61F 2/30 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/447 (2013.01) [A61F 2002/3092 (2013.01); A61F 2002/3093 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30281 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30433 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of implanting an interbody implant between adjacent bones to promote bone in-growth, the method comprising:
inserting the interbody implant between adjacent bones; the interbody implant comprising:
a porous structure comprising:
a monolithic body formed of a porous material replicating a porosity of human bone;
an interior cavity; and
a plurality of openings in the monolithic body extending from the interior cavity to an exterior of the monolithic body; and
a cage structure circumscribing a portion of the monolithic body in a transverse plane;
positioning the plurality of openings against surfaces of the adjacent bones to allow for in-growth; and
permitting the porous structure to compress in a superior-inferior direction between the adjacent bones and within the cage structure to stimulate biological bone growth within the adjacent bones.