ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,783, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).
"Rod reduction assemblies and related methods" was invented by Scott Lish (Oceanside, Calif.), Andrew Morris (San Diego), Niall Casey (Carlsbad, Calif.), Robert German (San Diego), Jeffrey M. Seago (San Diego) and Eugene Shoshtaev (Del Mar, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes example embodiments of rod reduction instrumentation and other rod and vertebrae manipulation instruments. The rod reducers can be used during the installation of a rod based surgical fixation system to help urge the rod into the fixation anchors. The reducers...