US Patent Issued to BIEDERMANN TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 11 for "Coupling assembly and polyaxial bone anchoring device comprising the same" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,450, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to BIEDERMANN TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & Co. KG (Donaueschingen, Germany).

"Coupling assembly and polyaxial bone anchoring device comprising the same" was invented by Lutz Biedermann (VS-Villingen, Germany), Bernd Fischer (Braunlingen, Germany) and Wilfried Matthis (Weisweil, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coupling assembly for coupling a rod to a bone anchoring element is provided, wherein the coupling assembly includes a receiving part having a first end, a second end, a central axis extending through the first end and second end, an accommodation space for accommodating a head of an anchorin...