ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,411, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AUGMEDICS LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Spinous process clamp" was invented by Nissan Elimelech (Beerotaim, Israel), Daniel Messinger (Migdal Haemek, Israel) and Stuart Wolf (Yokneam, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, consisting of a hinge (84) defining a hinge axis (88), and a pair of opposing jaws (80A,80B), including a movable jaw and a fixed jaw having a predetermined part radiopaque, so that the fixed jaw location is identifiable from a fluoroscopic image of the fixed jaw. The opposing jaws terminate at proximal and distal regions, and the proximal regions are connected to the hing...