ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,464, issued on July 15.

"Mammalian bony implant and anchors inserter system" was invented by John Bohenick (Troy, Mich.), Chase D. Tipping (Dallas), Kyle Blaskovich (Dallas) and Andrew Schindler (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provides systems and methods for deploying implants and anchors to treat one or more bony segments. A system may enable a User to insert an implant between adjacent bony segments and advance one or more bony anchors thereafter via the same system. Other embodiments may be described and claimed."

The patent was filed on May 13, 2022, under Application No. 17/744,596....