ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,938, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SPINE CHRONICLE JAPAN Co. LTD. (Ishikawa, Japan).
"Treatment device and screw" was invented by Noritaka Yonezawa (Ishikawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to a treatment device suitable for combined operative procedure of vertebroplasty and pediculoplasty. A treatment device includes a cylindrical driver capable of driving a screw into bone, an inner sleeve capable of being inserted into the driver, and a guide pin capable of being inserted into the inner sleeve, and is configured as follows. The screw includes on an outer wall (outer circumference) a thread that can ...