US Patent Issued to NuVasive on Sept. 9 for "Adapter for patient reference array and bone anchor assembly" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,955, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NuVasive Inc. (San Diego).

"Adapter for patient reference array and bone anchor assembly" was invented by Matthew Urban (Denver), Christopher Besaw (San Diego) and Andrew Wood (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a reference array, a bone anchor, a receiver assembly coupled to the bone anchor, and an adapter axially locked with the receiver assembly. The adapter includes a proximal end coupled to the reference array and a distal end coupled to the receiver assembly."

The patent was filed on Dec. 22, 2022, under Application No. 18/145,448.

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