ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,251, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to NSPINE GMBH (Kolbermoor, Germany).
"Spinal fixation system" was invented by Bronek Boszczyk (Kolbermoor, Germany) and Areena D'Souza (Kolbermoor, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spinal fixation system for connecting a spinal vertebra to a rod, including a clamp and screw, the clamp having screw, band rod channels. The rod channel extends through the clamp forming a passage for a rod, being open towards a lateral side and running approximately perpendicular to the screw channel. The band channel is adjacent to the screw channel and forms a passage for a flexible band. The screw channel ...