US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on May 6 for "Systems and methods for three dimensional reconstruction of a bent rod used in surgery" (Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,297, issued on May 6, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for three dimensional reconstruction of a bent rod used in surgery" was invented by David Leff (Philadelphia) and Samuel Paster (Jamaica Plain, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rod bender includes a first handle arm and a second handle arm coupled to a first pivot point. A body portion of the rod bender is coupled to the first handle arm at a second pivot point and the second handle arm is coupled to the body portion at a third pivot point. The body portion also includes first and second distal arms configured with first and second ro...