US Patent Issued to DePuy Synthes Products on Aug. 26 for "Instruments and methods for tensioning a spinal tether" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,765, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to DePuy Synthes Products Inc. (Raynham, Mass.).

"Instruments and methods for tensioning a spinal tether" was invented by Christopher Mickiewicz (Bridgewater, Mass.) and John Riley Hawkins (Cumberland, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods and devices are provided for tensioning a tether. In one embodiment, a tether tensioning device is provided and includes an elongate shaft adapted to be positioned adjacent to a bone anchor implanted in bone, and a tensioning mechanism pivotally associated with the elongate shaft and adapted to couple to a tether seated across the bone anchor and t...