ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,146, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).
"Spinal fixation system and method" was invented by Matthew Bechtel (Philadelphia) and Caelan Allen (Philadelphia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example system, a screw tower includes a rigid screw tower body with flexible tulip retaining clips for releasably securing the screw tower to a tulip. An elongate rod channel receives a spinal fixation rod transversely through the screw tower body. A drive shaft rotatably received in the screw tower body includes opposing first and second threaded members for threadedly engaging an outwardly threaded portion of ...