US Patent Issued to Highridge Medical on Sept. 30 for "Split tower for a bone anchor" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,927, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Highridge Medical LLC (Westminster, Colo.).

"Split tower for a bone anchor" was invented by Jared Parker (Denver), Michael Funk (Broomfield, Colo.) and Randall G. Mast (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anchor extender can be couplable to a bone anchor and can include an outer sleeve, an inner sleeve, and a lock. The lock can be operable to translate the inner sleeve relative to the outer sleeve between a locked position and an unlocked position to secure the inner sleeve and the outer sleeve to a head of the bone anchor in the locked position and to release the inner sleeve and the ou...