Patent ID: 11857231
Assignee: PIONEER SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A bone plate system comprising:
a plurality of bone screws;
a resilient bone plate having a unitary, one-piece construction;
lobes of the bone plate having through openings to receive the bone screws, each of the through openings having an inner diameter;
lower surface portions of the lobes to be positioned adjacent bones and upper surface portions of the lobes opposite the lower surface portions;
a single elongate intermediate portion of the bone plate connecting the lobes, the intermediate portion having a length extending between the lobes;
the intermediate portion having an upper surface portion, a lower surface portion, and a thickness extending between the upper and lower surface portions perpendicular to the length, the thickness of the intermediate portion being less than the length thereof;
the intermediate portion having a width perpendicular to the length and the thickness, the width of the intermediate portion being less than the length of the intermediate portion and less than the inner diameter of at least one of the through openings of the lobes;
the bone plate having an unflexed configuration wherein the intermediate portion is bent upwardly and the lobes are closer together and a flexed configuration wherein the intermediate portion is straightened and the lobes are farther apart;
wherein the lobes extend transversely to one another with the bone plate in the unflexed configuration and the lobes are coplanar with one another with the bone plate in the flexed configuration; and
instrument receiving portions of the lobes to connect to an instrument that maintains the bone plate in the flexed configuration for positioning of the bone plate adjacent the bones.