US Patent Issued to Choice Spine on Oct. 7 for "Bone screws" (North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,653, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Choice Spine LLC (Knoxville, Tenn.).

"Bone screws" was invented by Keith Melvin Maxwell (Hendersonville, N.C.), David Wiles (Chattanooga, Tenn.), Julian Price (Bogart, Ga.), Justin Splane (Knoxville, Tenn.), Alicia Henderson (Knoxville, Tenn.), Jayden Garfield (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Matthew B. Kubo (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone screw includes a screw body having a head at one end of the screw and a tip at an opposite end of the screw; head threads directly attached to the screw body and continuous around the head of the screw; tip threads directly attached to the screw b...