Patent ID: 11918484
Assignee: INTEGRITY IMPLANTS INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A method of stabilizing a laterally-expandable intervertebral scaffolding in a subject, the method comprising:
obtaining a laterally-expandable intervertebral scaffolding having a plurality of support beams, each beam in the plurality of support beams (i) designed to bear a compression load in the cephalocaudal direction in a subject and (ii) independently selected from the group consisting of straight beams and curved beams;
selecting the intervertebral scaffolding to include an assembly of 4 independently operable, structural beams in an at least substantially parallel orientation for an expansion of the assembly from a collapsed state to an expanded state; and
expanding the scaffolding in the subject in operable connection with a stabilizer that slidably engages with the support beams and provides an opposing force to each beam in the plurality of support beams during the expanding, the opposing force retaining each beam in the plurality of support beams from a lateral movement that exceeds the expanded state;
wherein, the assembly includes a first top beam, a second top beam, a first bottom beam, and a second bottom beam, each beam having a central axis and designed to bear the compression load in the cephalocaudal direction in a subject, the compression load applied at least substantially normal to the central axis of each beam in an intervertebral space of the subject.