US Patent Issued to BIEDERMANN TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 9 for "Receiving part for receiving a rod for coupling the rod to a bone anchoring element" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,951, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to BIEDERMANN TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & Co. KG (Donaueschingen, Germany).

"Receiving part for receiving a rod for coupling the rod to a bone anchoring element" 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 receiving part for receiving a rod for coupling the rod to a bone anchoring element includes a receiving part body including a first end and a second end, and having a substantially U-shaped recess at the first end forming a channel for receiving the rod, and an accommodation space for accommodating a head of the bone ...