US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on May 20 for "Orthopedic fixation devices and methods of installation thereof" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,170, issued on May 20, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Orthopedic fixation devices and methods of installation thereof" was invented by Jeff Nichols (Medford, N.J.) and Noah Hansell (King of Prussia, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Orthopedic fixation devices and methods of installing the same. The orthopedic fixation device may include a coupling element and a bone fastener, whereby the bone fastener can be loaded into the coupling element through the bottom of a bore in the coupling element and a retention member is configured to allow polyaxial rotation of the bone fastener and also to lock the bone fastene...