Securing fasteners

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8734495
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13352464

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A polyaxial fastener is secured within an implant with a retaining ring. The ring is assembled onto a circumferential groove formed in the fastener head. The groove and ring are positionable, when the fastener is installed into an implant, at a wide portion of the mating polyaxial aperture in the implant. The ring is compressible into the groove to form a narrowed diameter, which is passable into a narrow diameter of the aperture, near an entrance to the aperture. The ring is released to expand and increase an overall diameter of the head and ring assembly, thereby rending the assembly too wide to pass by the narrow entrance to the aperture, thereby securing the assembly within the implant.

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  • GLOBUS MEDICAL, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Black, Michael Swarthmore, US 117 4224

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