US 12,303,396 B2
Adjustable patellar tendon realignment implant
Damien Shulock, San Francisco, CA (US); Jeffrey Halbrecht, San Francisco, CA (US); John Barrett, San Francisco, CA (US); and Katherine J. Stephenson, Belmont, CA (US)
Assigned to ZKR Orthopedics, Inc., Kentfield, CA (US)
Filed by ZKR ORTHOPEDICS, INC., Sausalito, CA (US)
Filed on May 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/316,233.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/022,977, filed on May 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0346165 A1, Nov. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. A61F 2/38 (2006.01); A61F 2/46 (2006.01); A61F 2/30 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/3877 (2013.01) [A61F 2/461 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30548 (2013.01); A61F 2002/3055 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30565 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30688 (2013.01); A61F 2/389 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
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1. An orthopedic implant comprising:
an inferior portion having a tibia contact surface configured to extend over a tibia;
a superior portion opposite to the inferior portion and disposed between the patellar tendon and the inferior portion, the superior portion having a tendon contact surface configured to change a position of a patellar tendon by lifting or tilting the patellar tendon when a curved surface of the inferior portion is engaged with the tibia;
a hinge or pivot connecting the superior portion to the inferior portion;
a fixation mechanism adapted to attach the orthopedic implant to the tibia; and
an adjustment mechanism adapted to change a distance between the tendon contact surface and the tibia contact surface.