ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,927, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Socko Medical Co. Ltd. (New Taipei, Taiwan).
"Spine connecting rod" was invented by Jung-Tsou Tung (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chang-Yi Kuo (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Ming-Feng Ke (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spine connecting rod includes a coupling assembly, a first rod and a second rod. The coupling assembly includes a cylindrical body having first and second coupling parts and a cylindrical elastic part inside the body. The first rod, pivotally connected with the coupling assembly, has a diameter less than any inner diameter of the elastic part and the first coupling part. On...