US Patent Issued to DePuy Synthes Products on Feb. 4 for "Deformable threaded locking structures, and related systems and methods" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,709, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to DePuy Synthes Products Inc. (Raynham, Mass.).

"Deformable threaded locking structures, and related systems and methods" was invented by Joel Oberli (Niederdorf, Switzerland), This Aebi (Grenchen, Switzerland), Mirko Rocci (Bettlach, Switzerland), Johanna F. Menze (Zurich) and Said Ghammar (Zuchwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone plate includes a plate body defining an outer surface, an opposed bone-facing surface, and a combination hole comprising a locking hole and a compression hole that intersect one another and each extending from the outer surface to the bone-facing surfac...