ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,419, issued on April 8, was assigned to SYNTEC Corp. (Iwaki, Japan).
"Rod for spinal fixation implant" was invented by Kazumi Akatsu (Fukushima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rod for spinal fixation implant having flexibility to reliably support movement of the spine while following movement of the spine with simple configuration. A rod for spinal fixation implant with a screw portion fixed to a vertebral bone and a coupling portion configured to couple the screw portion to the rod, and fixes plural vertebral bones to each other via the rod, the rod for spinal fixation implant includes a layered winding portion 10 configured...