ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,478, issued on April 15, was assigned to Osteon Medical LLC (Grand Island, Neb.).
"Kyphoplasty system and method" was invented by Nathan William Murdoch (Grand Island, Neb.) and Cody L. Evans (Grand Island, Neb.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A kyphoplasty system disclosed herein includes various instruments which can be selectively used to perform a kyphoplasty operation on a patient. For example, in some embodiments the kyphoplasty system includes an inflation plunger that is used to deliver a balloon inflation medium to enlarge an implantable balloon device. Further, some embodiments described herein include a connection system bet...