US Patent Issued to Acumed on March 25 for "Variable pitch tapered compressing screw for dynamic compression" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,968, issued on March 25, was assigned to Acumed LLC (Hillsboro, Ore.).

"Variable pitch tapered compressing screw for dynamic compression" was invented by Terrence Chadwick Smith (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone screw is provided with a resilient component that enables a surgeon to measure the amount of compression effected by the bone screw during installation and dynamically maintain that compression across the provided bone screw during fracture healing. The provided bone screw includes a leading component, a trailing component, and a resilient component that may be compressed between the leading and trailing ...