US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation on Oct. 7 for "Interspinous spacer with actuator locking arrangements and methods and systems" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,646, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corp. (Valencia, Calif.).

"Interspinous spacer with actuator locking arrangements and methods and systems" was invented by Zdzislaw Bernard Malinowski (Castaic, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interspinous spacer includes an actuator screw having a proximal end and a shaped cavity in the proximal end, where the shaped cavity is configured for receiving a bit of a driver tool having a complementary shape for rotating the actuator screw using the driver tool; a wedge coupled to the actuator screw, wherein, as the actuator screw is rotated using the driver ...