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. 12,440,246, 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 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 having a central axis, two legs defining a recess for receiving a rod, and a head receiving portion that is at least partially expandable and having an opening for inserting and pivotably holding a head of a bone anchoring element therein, and a loc...