US Patent Issued to Medos International Sarl on July 8 for "Connectors for use in systems and methods for reducing the risk of proximal junctional kyphosis" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,943, issued on July 8, was assigned to Medos International Sarl (Le Locle, Switzerland).

"Connectors for use in systems and methods for reducing the risk of proximal junctional kyphosis" was invented by Christopher Mickiewicz (Bridgewater, Mass.), Michael O'Neil (West Bamstable, Mass.), Connor Engstrom (Hopkinton, Mass.), Michael O'Brien (Dallas), Christopher Ames (Mill Valley, Calif.), Munish Gupta (Frontenac, Mo.) and Matthew Scott-Young (Southport, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for reducing the risk of PJK, PJF, and other conditions are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a longitudinal extension c...