US Patent Issued to BIEDERMANN TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 11 for "Coupling device for coupling a rod to a bone anchoring element and bone anchoring device with such a coupling device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,451, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to BIEDERMANN TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & Co. KG (Donaueschingen, Germany).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coupling device for coupling a rod to a bone anchoring element includes a receiving part having a first end, a second end, a central axis extending through the first end and the second end, and a channel for receiving a rod. The receiving part defin...