US 12,290,286 B2
Tethered restraint of vertebral bodies
Angus James Gray, New South Wales (AU); Evangelos Tozakoglou, Rotterdam (NL); Matthew Prygoski, Warsaw, IN (US); and Collin Gibbs, Columbia City, IN (US)
Assigned to OrthoPediatrics Corp., Warsaw, IN (US)
Filed by OrthoPediatrics Corp., Warsaw, IN (US)
Filed on Mar. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/653,560.
Application 17/653,560 is a division of application No. 16/228,973, filed on Dec. 21, 2018, granted, now 11,304,730.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/609,787, filed on Dec. 22, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0183721 A1, Jun. 16, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 17/70 (2006.01); A61B 17/80 (2006.01); A61B 17/86 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/7034 (2013.01) [A61B 17/7001 (2013.01); A61B 17/7005 (2013.01); A61B 17/7007 (2013.01); A61B 17/7022 (2013.01); A61B 17/7032 (2013.01); A61B 17/809 (2013.01); A61B 17/8625 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
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1. An apparatus for tethered connection between vertebrae, the apparatus comprising:
a bone screw having a shaft with threads and a head;
a portion of flexible tether having an uncompressed width; and
a tethering restraint member having a channel between opposing walls, the channel having an open top and a closed bottom, the open top extending from an entrance on a side of the tethering restraint member to an exit on a side of said tethering restraint member, the bottom including a region less wide than the uncompressed width of the tether, the region being adapted and configured for restraint of the tether within the channel, said member defining a through aperture sized to accept therethrough the shaft but not the head.