US Patent Issued to SI-Bone on Sept. 30 for "Threaded implants and methods of use across bone segments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,028, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SI-Bone Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Threaded implants and methods of use across bone segments" was invented by Derek P. Lindsey (San Jose, Calif.), Paul Sand (Redwood City, Calif.), Bret W. Schneider (San Jose, Calif.), Scott A. Yerby (Montara, Calif.), Nikolas F. Kerr (Milpitas, Calif.) and Regina Macbarb (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A threaded implant can be provided with an elongated main body having external threads configured to thread into bone, and an internal support structure located within the external threads. The internal support structure has a helical arrang...