Patent ID: 9283089
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: A61F

Claim Text:
1. An expandable implant device for implantation at a surgical site, the implant device comprising: a top piece and a bottom piece, the bottom piece comprising bone material insertable into a disc space, the bottom piece having superior and inferior surfaces and a longitudinal axis, said bottom piece configured to couple with the top piece comprising cortical bone and having superior and inferior surfaces and a longitudinal axis, the bottom piece having a flat leading end face perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the bottom piece and the superior surface of the bottom piece having a ramped portion extending at an incline relative to the longitudinal axis of the bottom piece and a non-ramped portion extending parallel to said longitudinal axis, the ramped portion extending only partially along the length of the superior surface such that the leading end face of the bottom piece comprises a greater height than an opposite end face of the bottom piece, the top piece having a leading bullet-shaped end, the leading bullet-shaped end of the top piece configured to distract open an intervertebral disc space by slidably inserting the top piece over the bottom piece, the inferior surface of the top piece having a ramped portion such that the leading end of the top piece comprises a lesser height than an opposite end of the top piece, the implant device is configured to contact host bone and the implant device comprises non-bone material, a contact surface area of the non-bone material and the cortical bone to the host bone comprising from about 5% to about 50% of the implant, wherein the superior surface of the bottom piece comprises a first pair of angled surfaces extending from the superior surface, the first pair of angled surfaces forming a triangular valley extending longitudinally along the superior surface and the inferior surface of the top piece comprises a second pair of angled surfaces extending from the inferior surface, the second pair of angled surfaces forming a triangular peak extending longitudinally along the inferior surface, the triangular valley and triangular peak configured to interlock with each other.