US Patent Issued on May 19 for "Method of attaching tooling to the receiver of a bone anchor assembly for minimally invasive surgery" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,180, issued on May 19.

"Method of attaching tooling to the receiver of a bone anchor assembly for minimally invasive surgery" was invented by Roger P. Jackson (Prairie Village, Kan.), Lawrence E. Guerra (Mission, Kan.) and William R. Hendricks (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of assembling a bone anchor system for securing an elongate rod to a head of a shank includes positioning a lower attachment portion of tooling onto an upper end of a receiver having a pair of integral upright arms extending upward from a base portion. The lower attachment portion includes a discontinuous inner convex cylindrical surfa...