US 11,986,396 B2
Implant for restoring height of a vertebral body
Jean-Francois Oglaza, Portage, MI (US); and Eleftherios Louvis, Carringaline (IE)
Assigned to Stryker European Operations Limited, Carrigtwohill (IE)
Filed by Stryker European Operations Limited, Carrigtwohill (IE)
Filed on Dec. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/088,861.
Application 18/088,861 is a continuation of application No. 16/722,939, filed on Dec. 20, 2019, granted, now 11,540,926.
Claims priority of application No. 20190100491 (GR), filed on Nov. 1, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0130342 A1, Apr. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. A61F 2/44 (2006.01); B33Y 30/00 (2015.01)
CPC A61F 2/4465 (2013.01) [B33Y 30/00 (2014.12)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An implant for restoring height of a vertebral body, the implant configured to be deployed in a craniocaudal direction within the vertebral body after being directed through an access cannula with an introducer device, the implant comprising:
an upper plate and a lower plate configured to respectively form upper and lower loadbearing surfaces;
a distal end portion and a proximal end portion;
a first support coupled to the distal end portion and an underside of the upper plate;
a second support coupled to the proximal end portion and the underside of the upper plate, wherein the first support and the second support are arranged to crisscross in a proximal-to-distal direction;
a third support coupled to the distal end portion and an upper side of the lower plate; and
a fourth support coupled to the proximal end portion and the upper side of the lower plate, wherein the third support and the fourth support are arranged to crisscross in the proximal-to-distal direction,
wherein the first support is coupled to the upper plate at an axial position that is proximal to where the second support is coupled to the upper plate,
wherein the third support is coupled to the lower plate at an axial position that is proximal to where the fourth support is coupled to the lower plate.