US Patent Issued to Acumed on Oct. 6 for "Bone screw with reduced flank portion" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,750, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Acumed LLC (Hillsboro, Ore.).

"Bone screw with reduced flank portion" was invented by Mark B. Sommers (Beaverton, Ore.), Andrew W. Seykora (Portland, Ore.) and Brian R. Conley (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone screw is provided that reduces insertion torque when driving the screw into bone while maintaining pull-out strength. The provided bone screw includes one or more threads having a portion with a reduced flank profile that helps reduce the amount of torque required to drive the bone screw into bone. The portion with the reduced flank profile has an equal thread depth or h...