US Patent Issued to Auctus Surgical on Aug. 25 for "Spinal curvature modulation systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,470, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Auctus Surgical Inc. (San Francisco).

"Spinal curvature modulation systems and methods" was invented by John Barrett (San Francisco), Murali Kadaba (Mountain View, Calif.), John Ashley (Danville, Calif.) and Damien Shulock (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Spinal curvature modulation systems, methods and related devices and instrumentation are disclosed, which include a flexible tether, a tether tensioning unit and bone anchors for the flexible tether that allow the tether to be secured across multiple vertebrae in a region of treatment. When the flexible tether is attached to multi...