US Patent Issued to Highridge Medical on Sept. 30 for "Extended tab separation apparatus and method" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,928, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Highridge Medical LLC (Westminster, Colo.).

"Extended tab separation apparatus and method" was invented by Caleb Lee Stoll (Broomfield, Colo.), Randall G. Mast (Denver), Allison Christine Capote (Boulder, Colo.), Heidi Farmer (Lafayette, Colo.), Guillaume Quetier (Lakewood, Colo.) and Daniel Burke (Thornton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool for breaking tabs of a vertebral bone anchor can include a tip, a first rail, and a second rail. The tip can be positionable over a housing of a vertebral bone anchor. The first rail can be pivotably coupled to the tip and can extend proximally ...