US 12,409,041 B2
Device and method for acromion replacement
Brian Barnard, Gainesville, FL (US)
Assigned to Exactech, Inc., Gainesville, FL (US)
Appl. No. 17/442,970
Filed by Exactech, Inc., Gainesville, FL (US)
PCT Filed Mar. 27, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/025402
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 24, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/198651, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 1, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/824,871, filed on Mar. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0192837 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. A61F 2/40 (2006.01); A61F 2/30 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/40 (2013.01) [A61F 2002/30433 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30535 (2013.01); A61F 2002/4088 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device,
wherein the device is configured to replace an absent native acromion of a scapula of a patient,
wherein the device comprises:
an acromion portion sufficiently sized and shaped to replicate functions of the native acromion, and
a fixation portion connected to the acromion portion, the fixation portion comprising a first arm portion and a second arm portion spaced apart from the first arm portion,
wherein the first arm portion is positioned with respect to the acromion portion so as to be configured such that, when the device is positioned adjacent to the scapula such that the acromion portion is in a native position of the absent native acromion, the first arm portion overlays a superior face of a scapular spine of the scapula, and
wherein the second arm portion is spaced apart from the first arm portion so as to be configured such that, when the device is positioned such that the first arm portion overlays the superior face of the scapular spine of the scapula, the second arm portion overlays an inferior face of the scapular spine of the scapula,
wherein each of the first arm portion and the second arm portion includes at least one screw fixation point extending therethrough, wherein each of the at least one screw fixation point is configured to receive a screw therein so as to secure the device to the scapula.