ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,967, issued on Nov. 18.
"Surgical fixation system and related methods" was invented by Thomas Sweeney (La Jolla, Calif.), Chad Grant (Escondido, Calif.), Spencer Pettine (San Diego) and Ryan Donahoe (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical fixation system including a base plate, a plurality of anchors and a locking element. The base plate has at least a pair of fixation apertures configured to receive at least a portion of the anchors therethrough. The fixation apertures are located within the base plate such that upon proper placement of the base plate within a surgical target site, one of the fixation apertures is posit...