US Patent Issued to MIMEO MEDICAL on Oct. 7 for "Tool attachment point with alignment aid for screw elements" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,652, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to MIMEO MEDICAL GmbH (Filderstadt, Germany).

"Tool attachment point with alignment aid for screw elements" was invented by Frank Heuer (Filderstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A screw element for the fixation of bone components and bone fragments is disclosed having a shaft with an outside screw thread and a longitudinal axis extending along the shaft and defining a distal direction and a proximal direction, and an insertion direction and an opposite removal direction, and has a tool attachment point starting radially inwards and the tool attachment point has a central opening and in th...