US Patent Issued to LEITH MEDICAL on May 6 for "Bone fixation systems, apparatuses, and methods with anti-back-out feature" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,293, issued on May 6, was assigned to LEITH MEDICAL LLC (Buda, Texas).

"Bone fixation systems, apparatuses, and methods with anti-back-out feature" was invented by Timothy J. Leak (Austin, Texas) and Thomas G. Smith (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A locking clip for retaining a fastener in a bone fixation plate, the locking clip comprising a flexure member and a body member coupled to the flexure member, the body member comprising a locking tab, the locking tab configured to provide an axial limitation to motion of the fastener in a non-rotationally-ratcheting manner, the flexure member resiliently flexible to permit di...