Patent ID: 11931269
Assignee: XTANT MEDICAL HOLDINGS, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A delivery system for delivering a spinal stabilization device to an implantation site external to adjacent vertebrae, the spinal stabilization device having superior and inferior bone-contacting sections and a midsection with a cavity defined therebetween, the spinal stabilization device having a lower profile when the spinal stabilization device is in a first orientation, and having a higher profile when the spinal stabilization device is in a second orientation, the delivery system comprising:
a hollow working sleeve having an instrument insertion end and a bone engagement end, the working sleeve having a profile that is smaller than the higher profile of the spinal stabilization device, the working sleeve further having an inner feature; and
an insertion instrument insertable into the instrument insertion end of the working sleeve, the insertion instrument having a movable arm insertable into the defined cavity of the spinal stabilization device and configured to releasably carry the spinal stabilization device through the working sleeve in the first orientation, the movable arm being configured, upon engagement by the inner feature of the working sleeve, to rotate the spinal stabilization device from the first orientation to the second orientation at the implantation site about a rotational axis extending transverse to the superior and inferior bone-contacting sections and through the defined cavity of the spinal stabilization device,
wherein the superior and inferior bone-contacting sections extend in a lateral direction relative to an axis defined along a direction of insertion and are intersected by the axis defined along the direction of insertion when the spinal stabilization device is in the first orientation, and
wherein the superior and inferior bone-contacting sections extend in a longitudinal direction relative to the axis defined along the direction of insertion when the spinal stabilization device is in the second orientation.