ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,928, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NEXUS SPINE LLC (Salt Lake City).
"Surgical construct coupling system" was invented by David T. Hawkes (Salt Lake City) and Peter Halverson (Salt Lake City).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coupling assembly for use in surgical constructs includes a first body and a second body. One of the first body and the second body includes a male member and an other of the first body and the second body includes a female member. The male member is sized and shaped to be received within the female member and the female member has an internal bore sized and shaped to receive the male member therein. One of t...