US Patent Issued to KARL STORZ on June 17 for "Bone anchor element for inserting into a bone and/or fixing tissue to the bone, inserter, bone anchor system and method for assembling a bone anchor system" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,372, issued on June 17, was assigned to KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Bone anchor element for inserting into a bone and/or fixing tissue to the bone, inserter, bone anchor system and method for assembling a bone anchor system" was invented by Hannes Biedermann (Tuttlingen, Germany), Daniel Fluri (Grenchen, Switzerland) and Nicolas Bouduban (Biel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone anchor element/inserter/system for inserting into a bone and/or fixing tissue to the bone. The bone anchor element has a proximal end, a proximal section, a distal section and a distal end, and the proximal section has on the...