ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,919, issued on April 1, was assigned to OrthoPediatrics Corp. (Warsaw, Ind.).
"Spinal rod-to-rod connectors" was invented by Rebecca Boerigter Lengyel (Fort Wayne, Ind.), Collin Gibbs (Columbia City, Ind.), Scott Lubensky (Warsaw, Ind.) and David Wayne Daniels (Winona Lake, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polyaxial rod connector comprising a body having an external surface. The connector body is intersected by an imaginary first reference plane and an imaginary second reference plane perpendicular to the first plane. The first body portion is on one side of the first plane and defines a first spinal rod passage defining a first...