US Patent Issued to WOODWELDING on Aug. 5 for "Surgical methods for the treatment of spinal stenosis" (Swiss, Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,891, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to WOODWELDING AG (Stansstad, Switzerland).

"Surgical methods for the treatment of spinal stenosis" was invented by Dieter Grob (Erlenbach, Switzerland), Jorg Mayer (Niederlenz, Switzerland), Johan Van Havermaet (Deinze, Belgium) and Randal R. Betz (Bradenton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and suture anchor for treatment of spinal stenosis. The method includes the steps of cutting off a muscle origin or insertion from a spinous process, cutting off the spinous process at the transition to the lamina arcus vertebrae, at least partial resection of the lamina arcus vertebrae and thereby ...