US Patent Issued to OrthoPediatrics on May 6 for "Tethered restraint of vertebral bodies" (Dutch, American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,286, issued on May 6, was assigned to OrthoPediatrics Corp. (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Tethered restraint of vertebral bodies" was invented by Angus James Gray (New South Wales, Australia), Evangelos Tozakoglou (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Matthew Prygoski (Warsaw, Ind.) and Collin Gibbs (Columbia City, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for the tailored restraint of two separate bones, in which the bones are generally permitted to rotate relative to one another, or move toward each other, but are restrained from separating beyond a predetermined, fixed distance. In some embodiments, the restraint is provided by compressing a...