ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,323, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to MEDICREA INTERNATIONAL (France).
"Method of making it possible to produce and ideal curvature of a rod of vertebral osteosynthesis material designed to support a patient's vertebral column" was invented by Thomas Mosnier (Rochetaillee sur Saone, France), David Ryan (Rochetaillee sur Saone, France) and Vincent Fiere (Lyons, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for producing a curvature of a rod of vertebral osteosynthesis material designed to support a vertebral column of a patient is provided. A production unit receives a model defining the curvature of the rod. The curva...