Patent ID: 11877778
Assignee: TRIMED INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A system for facilitating changing of a configuration of a bone having a length, the system comprising:
a bone plate having a surface to overlie a surface of a bone to which the bone plate is to be fixed in an operative position; and
a spacing assembly configured to be placed together with the bone plate selectively in: a) a cutting state wherein the spacing assembly maintains a gap region between at least a part of the bone plate surface and a bone surface which the bone plate surface is situated to overlie; and b) a second state wherein the at least part of the bone plate surface can be moved closer to a bone surface, that the bone plate surface overlies with the bone plate in the operative position, than with the bone plate and spacing assembly in the cutting state,
whereby a cutting component can be directed fully through a bone and into the gap region with the spacing assembly and bone plate in the cutting state,
whereby after the bone is cut, the bone plate and spacing assembly can be changed into the second state whereupon the bone plate can be placed in the operative position.