US 12,245,778 B2
Minimally invasive displacement osteotomy system and method
Beniamin Zakhary, Marietta, GA (US); Gary W. Lowery, Eads, TN (US); and Jerry W. West, Arlington, TN (US)
Assigned to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY, INC., Memphis, TN (US)
Appl. No. 16/976,505
Filed by Wright Medical Technology, Inc., Memphis, TN (US)
PCT Filed Mar. 28, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/024587
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 28, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/195077, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 10, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/652,564, filed on Apr. 4, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0045756 A1, Feb. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/17 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/1775 (2016.11) [A61B 17/1728 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cutting guide comprising:
a body extending between an upper surface and a lower surface and defined by a perimeter and a guide foot having a contact surface;
a guide element pivotably coupled to the guide foot defining an open ended channel sized to receive a cutting instrument to thereby form an osteotomy in a bone when the cutting instrument is pivoted about and through a pivot point, through a plane parallel to the upper surface, with the guide element while engaging bone; and
a handle comprising a body extending from a first end to a second end, wherein a first end is configured to be coupled to the body.