Patent ID: 8702798

Claim:
An expandable intervertebral implant comprising: a front wall; a back wall spaced apart from the front wall; two side walls connecting the front wall and the back wall at their respective ends, the front wall, the back wall, and the two side walls defining a space; a bottom face; a top face; at least one engagement member with an engagement surface configured to engage an end plate of a vertebral body; a first support member and a second support member coupled by a coupling mechanism, wherein the first support member and the second support member are rotatable in the space along respective axes of rotation that are different from one another; and a first adjusting element and a second adjusting element which are supported by the first support member and the second support member, respectively, and which cooperate with the respective support member, to reciprocally move the engagement member between a first end position and a second end position along a third axis different from the axes of rotation of the first and second support members, wherein the engagement surface is configured to at least partially project outwardly beyond the bottom face or the top face.