US Patent Issued to BIEDERMANN TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 23 for "Coupling assembly for coupling a rod to a bone anchoring element and bone anchoring device with such a coupling assembly" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,669, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to BIEDERMANN TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & Co. KG (Donaueschingen, Germany).

"Coupling assembly for coupling a rod to a bone anchoring element and bone anchoring device with such a coupling assembly" was invented by Lutz Biedermann (VS-Villingen, Germany) and Wilfried Matthis (Weisweil, 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 includes a receiving part with an accommodation space defining an opening for inserting and accommodating a head of the bone anchoring element, and a pressure element having a cap portion configured to hold the head. ...