US 11,849,957 B2
Patient-specific instrumentation and method for articular joint repair
Pierre Couture, Montreal (CA); Trong Tin Nguyen, Laval (CA); Anselm Jakob Neurohr, Montreal (CA); Jean-Sebastien Merette, Mont-St-Hilaire (CA); Jean-Guillaume Abiven, Montreal (CA); and Alain Richard, Lachine (CA)
Assigned to ZIMMER, INC., Warsaw, IN (US)
Filed by ZIMMER, INC., Warsaw, IN (US)
Filed on May 6, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/403,843.
Application 16/403,843 is a continuation of application No. 13/902,219, filed on May 24, 2013, granted, now 10,327,786.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/787,579, filed on Mar. 15, 2013.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/671,990, filed on Jul. 16, 2012.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/651,061, filed on May 24, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2019/0254681 A1, Aug. 22, 2019
Int. Cl. A61B 17/15 (2006.01); A61F 2/46 (2006.01); A61B 34/10 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 17/154 (2013.01) [A61B 17/155 (2013.01); A61B 17/157 (2013.01); A61B 2034/108 (2016.02); A61F 2002/4658 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
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1. An assembly for resecting an articular bone surface in an articular joint repair procedure comprising:
a housing adapted to be positioned adjacent the articular bone surface, the housing having an opening defined therein; and
an insert adapted to be fitted into the opening, the insert including a first member and a second member separate from and releasably coupled to the first member in a releasably coupled configuration, wherein at least one of the first member and the second member is sheet metal having a bent portion at an end thereof, ends of the first member and of the second member contacting each other in the releasably coupled configuration, the releasably coupled configuration of the first member and of the second member defining an aperture with a substantially constant width by spacing the first member from the second member, the aperture adapted to receive a saw blade for resecting the articular bone surface.