US Patent Issued to SI-Bone on Feb. 4 for "Systems, devices, and methods for joint fusion" (California, Florida, Colorado, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,886, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SI-Bone Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems, devices, and methods for joint fusion" was invented by Richard G. Mauldin (Erie, Colo.), Ralph F. Rashbaum (Plano, Texas), Mark A. Reiley (Delray Beach, Fla.), Scott A. Yerby (Montara, Calif.), Paul M. Sand (Redwood City, Calif.), Bret W. Schneider (San Jose, Calif.), Jose Rodriguez (Houston), Nicanor Domingo (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Joanne Leung (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates generally to implants and tools for the fixation or fusion of joints or bone segments. These tools include tissue dilators ...