US Patent Issued to NEO MEDICAL on Sept. 16 for "System for tightening an orthopedic set screw at two different torque levels" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,803, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NEO MEDICAL SA (La Villette, Switzerland).

"System for tightening an orthopedic set screw at two different torque levels" was invented by Vincent Lefauconnier (Brent, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orthopedic implant kit for tightening a set screw to a head of a pedicle screw for holding a spinal rod to the pedicle screw, the kit including a screw extender for holding the head of the pedicle screw, a set screw driver for engaging with the set screw to threadably tighten the set screw to the head of the pedicle screw, a first torque limiting mechanism for limiting a torque betwe...