ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,027, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Tenon Medical Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).
"Methods for sacroiliac joint stabilization" was invented by Richard S Ginn (Gilroy, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are described for conducting minimally invasive medical interventions utilizing instruments and assemblies thereof to stabilize and/or fixate a dysfunctional sacroiliac (SI) joint. In one embodiment, a defect creation assembly is advanced from a posterior approach into the SI joint and configured to create pilot SI joint opening; portions of which being disposed in the sacrum and ilium bone structures. After the pilot SI joi...