Patent ID: 9642719
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61F

Claim:
1. An attachment device for securing to a vertebra, the device comprising: a head segment with sidewalls surrounding a hollow vertical core, said sidewalls having aligned vertical openings; a base comprising a malleable material, said base being pivotally coupled to said head segment, said base including at least one channel imparted through said base, said at least one channel having an entry opening and an exit opening; and a flexible threadable segment, said flexible threadable segment being flexibly threadable through said at least one channel, said flexible threadable segment passing through both said entry and exit openings of said at least one channel said flexible threadable segment being configured to non-invasively secure said rod anchor to a surface of a vertebra wherein a tensioning of said flexible threadable segment brings a bottom surface of said base into tensioned contact against a surface of a vertebra.