US Patent Issued to BIEDERMANN TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 7 for "Coupling assembly for coupling a rod to a bone anchoring element, and polyaxial bone anchoring device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,645, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to BIEDERMANN TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & Co. KG (Donaueschingen, Germany).

"Coupling assembly for coupling a rod to a bone anchoring element, and polyaxial bone anchoring device" was invented by Lutz Biedermann (VS-Villingen, Germany) and Bernd Fischer (Braunlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coupling assembly for coupling a rod to a bone anchoring element, including a receiving part having first and second ends, a recess at the first end for the rod, and an accommodation space for a head of the bone anchoring element, the accommodation space having an opening at the second end to permit inse...