ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,426, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CARBOFIX SPINE INC (Ocean Isle Beach, N.C.).
"Device for maintaining the shape of cross-sectional profile of an elongated element including composite material, and a device for bending thereof" was invented by Oren Globerman (Kfar-Shmaryahu, Israel), Mordechay Beyar (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Daniel Umansky (Kfar Saba, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for maintaining a shape of a transverse cross-sectional profile of an elongated orthopedic implant during shaping, which may include: a first and second elongated parts having contacting surfaces, each of the first and second elongated par...