US Patent Issued to BIEDERMANN TECHNOLOGIES on April 14 for "Receiving part for receiving a rod for coupling the rod to a bone anchoring element and a bone anchoring device with such a receiving part" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,414, issued on April 14, was assigned to BIEDERMANN TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & Co. KG (Donaueschingen, Germany).

"Receiving part for receiving a rod for coupling the rod to a bone anchoring element and a bone anchoring device with such a receiving part" was invented by Lutz Biedermann (VS-Villingen, Germany) and Wilfried Matthis (Weisweil, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiving part for receiving a rod for coupling the rod to a bone anchoring element, the receiving part including: a receiving part body having a channel for receiving a rod and defining an accommodation space for accommodating a head of a bone anchoring element, ...