US Patent Issued to Medos International Sarl on Aug. 5 for "Multipoint fixation implants" (American, Japanese, Australian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,888, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Medos International Sarl (Le Locle, Switzerland).

"Multipoint fixation implants" was invented by J. Riley Hawkins (Cumberland, R.I.), Albert Montello (Duxbury, Mass.), Christopher Ramsay (West Wareham, Mass.), Kevin Lee (Canton, Mass.), Joseph Peterson (South Dartmouth, Mass.), Ben Johnston (Quincy, Mass.), Heiko Koller (Waldeck-Alraft, Germany), Todd Albert (Penn Valley, Pa.), Christopher Ames (Mill Valley, Calif.), Brad Currier (Rochester, Minn.), Claudius Thome (Innsbruck, Australia) and Masashi Neo (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bone anchor assemblies are disclosed herein that c...