US Patent Issued to SeaSpine Orthopedics on Nov. 18 for "Apparatus and method for limiting a range of angular positions of a screw" (Ohio, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,963, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SeaSpine Orthopedics Corp. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for limiting a range of angular positions of a screw" was invented by Eric A. Lab (Wadsworth, Ohio), Joel P. Bales (Garrettsville, Ohio), Simon Gerhard Sjovold (North Canton, Ohio) and Keun-Young Anthony Kim (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spinal screw assembly is provided. The assembly may be provided with a screw and a movable head in which angulation of the screw relative to the movable head is constrained so that angulation within limits is allowed in one plane but lesser or no angulation is allowed in ano...