ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,667, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).
"Surgical fixation system" was invented by Sven Krueger (Trossingen, Germany), Josef-Benedikt Weiss (Rottweil, Germany) and Jian-Zoing Tan (Tuttlingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical fixation system includes at least one anchoring element with an anchoring portion for anchoring to a bone and with a receiving portion for a stabilization element for connecting to a further anchoring element. The stabilization element is arrangeable and fixable in the receiving portion with a fixing element. The fixation system includes an abutment element ar...