US Patent Issued to Xieping Dong on May 6 for "Bone fixation system capable of gradually changing from rigid fixation to axial non-rigid fixation" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,296, issued on May 6, was assigned to Xieping Dong (Nanchang, China).

"Bone fixation system capable of gradually changing from rigid fixation to axial non-rigid fixation" was invented by Xieping Dong (Nanchang, China), Qingli Li (Nanchang, China), Jingna Li (Yongzhou, China), Zizheng Ai (NanChang, China), Yuxiang Mei (JiuJiang, China), Qunming Bian (NanChang, China) and Weiyi He (GuangZhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a limb bone fixation system capable of automatically transforming from AO (Association for Study of Internal Fixation) to BO (Bio-logical Osteosynthesis) elastic fixation. The s...