US 12,185,958 B2
Targeting guides
Zachary Korman, Memphis, TN (US); Paul Luttrell, Germantown, TN (US); Joseph Ryan Woodard, Memphis, TN (US); Gary W. Lowery, Eads, TN (US); and Peter George Mangone, Arden, NC (US)
Assigned to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY, INC., Memphis, TN (US)
Appl. No. 17/786,868
Filed by WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY, INC., Memphis, TN (US)
PCT Filed Feb. 17, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/018293
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 17, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/178132, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 10, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/984,043, filed on Mar. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0013727 A1, Jan. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 17/17 (2006.01); A61B 17/72 (2006.01); A61B 17/88 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/1775 (2016.11) [A61B 17/17 (2013.01); A61B 17/7291 (2013.01); A61B 17/8897 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A targeting guide comprising:
a first part comprising an elongated shape defining a first end and a second end,
wherein the first end is configured for being inserted into an intramedullary canal of a first portion of a bone after the bone has been cut into the first portion and a second portion; and
a second part comprising an elongated shape defining a first end and a second end,
wherein the first part and the second part are pivotally engaged to each other whereby the targeting guide can switch between a first configuration and a second configuration by pivoting relative to each other,
wherein the first end of the second part comprises a bone contacting surface for contacting and pushing the second portion of the bone off-axis relative to the first portion of the bone while the first end of the first part is inserted into the intramedullary canal of the first portion of the bone,
wherein the second end of the second part is provided with at least one guide hole extending through the second end, whereby the geometrical relationship between the first end of the second part and the at least one guide hole is fixed and the at least one guide hole's longitudinal axis is aimed toward a target region defined in proximity of the bone contacting surface of the first end of the second part.