US 11,806,247 B2
Intravertebral implant system and methods of use
Randal R. Betz, Bradenton, FL (US); and Dale E. Whipple, Nashua, NH (US)
Assigned to NOFUSCO CORPORATION, Bradenton, FL (US)
Filed by NOFUSCO Corporation, Bradenton, FL (US)
Filed on Feb. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/676,609.
Application 17/676,609 is a continuation of application No. 17/347,492, filed on Jun. 14, 2021, granted, now 11,259,936.
Application 17/347,492 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2021/037285, filed on Jun. 14, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/039,242, filed on Jun. 15, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0211515 A1, Jul. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. A61F 2/44 (2006.01); A61F 2/30 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/4425 (2013.01) [A61F 2002/30405 (2013.01); A61F 2002/443 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vertebral implant device configured to alter an alignment of a spine, the vertebral implant device comprising:
a wedge having two or more opposing wedge tines;
a plate having an external surface configuration and two or more opposing plate tines;
a coupling device;
a staple having one or more staple tines;
the two or more opposing plate tines and the one or more staple tines are configured to frictionally engage a vertebral body;
the coupling device is configured to couple the wedge, the plate and the staple whereby when the vertebral implant device is secured in the vertebral body, the external surface configuration of the plate is configured to alter a relative orientation of a superior endplate surface plane and an inferior endplate surface plane of the vertebral body and is configured to alter the alignment of the spine; and
the two or more opposing wedge tines are configured to secure the two or more opposing plate tines whereby when the wedge, the plate and the staple are secured in the vertebral body, the two or more opposing wedge tines prevent a change in relative orientation of the two or more opposing plate tines with respect to each other.