US Patent Issued to BIEDERMANN TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 14 for "Polyaxial bone anchoring device and system including an instrument and a polyaxial bone anchoring device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,247, issued on Oct. 14, 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 Wilfried Matthis (Weisweil, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polyaxial bone anchoring device includes a receiving part with two legs defining a recess for receiving a rod and a pressure member for exerting pressure on a head of a bone anchoring element in the receiving part, the pressure member having an engagement portion. The engagement portion can extend at ...