US Patent Issued to BIEDERMANN TECHNOLOGIES on Dec. 16 for "Polyaxial bone anchoring device and system including an instrument and a polyaxial bone anchoring device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,099, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to BIEDERMANN TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & Co. KG (Donaueschingen, Germany).

"Polyaxial bone anchoring device and system including an instrument and a polyaxial bone anchoring device" was invented by Timo Biedermann (Trossingen, Germany) and Berthold Dannecker (St. Georgen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone anchoring device includes a receiving part with a recess for receiving a rod and a flexible head receiving portion for pivotably holding a head of a bone anchoring element, a pressure member configured to exert pressure on the head when the head is held in the head receiving portion, and a c...