ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,313, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to VB SPINE US OPCO LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Triangulation assembly for rectifying vertebrae, and spinal osteosynthesis system comprising such assemblies" was invented by Richard Assaker (Kain, Belgium), Daniel Chopin (Mercurey, France) and Dominique Petit (Verton, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for rectifying vertebrae, comprises: two bone anchoring means intended to be implanted on a same vertebra, a triangulation bar and a connection means for connecting the triangulation bar to each bone anchoring means and for holding the bone anchoring means in a given position in order to...