US Patent Issued to OrthoPediatrics on Nov. 4 for "Apparatus and methods for spooled vertebral anchors" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,408, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to OrthoPediatrics Corp. (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Apparatus and methods for spooled vertebral anchors" was invented by David W. Daniels (Winona Lake, Ind.), Matthew Prygoski (North Liberty, Ind.), Richard Detlefsen (Warsaw, Ind.) and Evangelos Tozakoglou (Warsaw, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method for dynamic connection between adjacent bones. Various embodiments pertain to a bone anchor that includes a rotatable spool, the spool being configured to place tension on a flexible member, such as a tether, suture, cable, or other. Still further embodiments pertain to tools for interconnect...