US 11,806,025 B2
Method, device, and system for bone fixation
Giovanni Francesco Solitro, Shreveport, LA (US); R. Shane Barton, Shreveport, LA (US); and Johnathan Steven Alexander, Shreveport, LA (US)
Filed by Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, Baton Rouge, LA (US)
Filed on Dec. 3, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/111,048.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/942,202, filed on Dec. 1, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0071642 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 17/16 (2006.01); A61B 17/17 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/1637 (2013.01) [A61B 17/1615 (2013.01); A61B 17/1728 (2013.01); A61B 17/1739 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bone surgery tool comprising:
a base;
a fixed arm fixed to the base, the fixed arm comprising a shoulder and a jaw, wherein the shoulder comprises first and second tracks positioned on opposing sides of the shoulder;
a sliding arm releasably fixable to the base, the sliding arm comprises a head having a slot;
a cartridge releasably coupled to the slot, wherein the cartridge has one or more bore holes;
an implant, wherein the implant has one or more screw holes alignable with the one or more bore holes;
one or more snap retainers adjacent a front entrance of the slot for releasably coupling the implant to the head of the sliding arm; and
a first block and a second block each positioned on a bottom surface of the head, wherein the first block comprises a first channel and the second block comprises a second channel, and wherein the first and second tracks engage the first and second channels respectively when the sliding arm moves toward the fixed arm.