Device and method for deployment of an anchoring device for intervertebral spinal fusion

An intervertebral fusion system comprising:

• a spacer having a superior surface, an inferior surface, opposing lateral surfaces, an upper guide, and a lower guide, wherein the spacer is adapted to be implanted between an upper vertebral body and a lower vertebral body;
• an anchoring device having an upper anchor and a lower anchor, wherein the upper and lower anchors are adapted to be simultaneously deployed into their respective vertebral bodies along the upper and lower guides when an anchor driver applies force to the upper and lower anchors simultaneously;
• a locking cap configured to lock the upper and lower anchors in their deployed position, an implantation instrument wherein the anchoring device is advanced between a pair of leaf springs of the implantation instrument to cause a first gripper and a second gripper to respectively grip a first lateral surface and a second lateral surface of the spacer,
• wherein the anchoring device presses against the upper and lower guides in order to radially deploy the upper and lower anchors into their respective vertebral bodies.