ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,418, issued on June 17, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).
"Minimally invasive surgery guide wire capturing instrumentation" was invented by Caelan Allen (Ambler, Pa.) and Matthew Bechtel (Philadelphia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument includes a driver shaft couplable to a cannulated pedicle screw. The driver shaft having a through bore for conveying a surgical guide wire through the cannulated pedicle screw. The surgical instrument also includes a wire positioning assembly having a positional adjustment mechanism for adjusting an axial position of the surgical guide wire with respect to the cannu...