ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,065, issued on April 7, was assigned to BIEDERMANN TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & Co. KG (Donaueschingen, Germany).
"Instrument for use in surgery" was invented by Timo Biedermann (Trossingen, Germany), Markku Biedermann (Key Biscayne, Fla.) and Achim Schunemann (Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument is connectable to a bone anchor insertion device having a drive shaft that defines a coaxial channel for receiving a needle therethrough. The instrument includes a handle portion configured to be coupled to the drive shaft in a rotationally fixed manner to transmit torque to the drive shaft, a needle h...