Patent ID: 8852249

Claim:
A bone plate comprising: a bottom side for resting against a bone; an upper side opposite the bottom side in a plane; and a plurality of holes located along a longitudinal axis of the plate for inserting one or more bone screws to be anchored to a bone, wherein at least one hole is a continuous oblong hole having two arcuate segments at opposite ends and two parallel linear portions connecting the arcuate segments with no barriers protruding into the hole, said oblong hole including a longitudinal axis between said two arcuate segments running in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the plate, thread flights provided in a partial area of a lateral side of the oblong hole, wherein said thread flights, when seen in a direction substantially transverse to the plane of the upper side, are arranged only over a part of the depth of the oblong hole; and a support structure with smooth walls configured for a positive fit with a correspondingly configured negative structure at a screw head or screw neck of a bone screw is provided above or below the thread flights in the direction substantially transverse to the plane of the upper side.