Patent ID: 9572680
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: A61F

Claim:
1. A spinal implant comprising: a substantially U-shaped body defining an upper body surface, a lower body surface, an inner body surface, and an outer body surface, the substantially U-shaped body having a first wall, a second wall, and a third wall, a first end of each of the second wall and the third wall joined to the first wall at opposing ends of the first wall such that the second wall and the third wall define legs of the substantially U-shaped body, a second, free end of each of the second wall and the third wall defining a face, each face defining an uninterrupted planar wall surface bounded by and occupying an entire area defined between the upper body surface, the lower body surface, the inner body surface, and the outer body surface, the substantially U-shaped body configured and dimensioned to be positioned between a first vertebral body and a second vertebral body; a plate having a main portion and a flange portion, the main portion having: the flange portion having a second screw hole oriented towards the second vertebral body with the second screw hole oriented substantially parallel to the horizontal axis of the substantially U-shaped body, the flange portion coupled to the main portion such that the flange portion extends past the upper plate surface of the main portion; and a plurality of bone screws, each bone screw of the plurality of bone screws insertable through a corresponding screw hole of a plurality of screw holes of the plate and capable of attaching to bone.