US 12,458,375 B2
Proximal hip drill clamp with implant
Damon J. Servidio, Towaco, NJ (US); Carlos E. Collazo, Old Greenwich, CT (US); and G. Douglas Letson, Tampa, FL (US)
Assigned to Howmedica Osteonics Corp., Mahwah, NJ (US)
Filed by Howmedica Osteonics Corp., Mahwah, NJ (US)
Filed on Mar. 23, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/125,408.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/324,767, filed on Mar. 29, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0310033 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 17/17 (2006.01); A61B 17/68 (2006.01); A61F 2/46 (2006.01); A61B 17/56 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/17 (2013.01) [A61B 17/68 (2013.01); A61B 2017/564 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tool for implanting an orthopedic implant upon a bone, the tool comprising:
a body defining an implant socket for releasably retaining an implant and at least one drill guide opening into the implant socket; and
a tip toward which the implant socket faces that is opposedly movable relative to the body for clamping the implant and bone between the body and tip.