US Patent Issued to BIEDERMANN TECHNOLOGIES on Jan. 20 for "Coupling device for coupling a rod to a bone anchor and system of such a coupling device and at least two bone anchors" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,603, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to BIEDERMANN TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & Co. KG (Donaueschingen, Germany).

"Coupling device for coupling a rod to a bone anchor and system of such a coupling device and at least two bone anchors" was invented by Lutz Biedermann (VS-Villingen, Germany), Timo Biedermann (Trossingen, Germany) and Berthold Dannecker (St. Georgen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for coupling a rod to bone includes first and second bone anchors that are different from one another and a coupling device including a receiving part with a central axis and a head receiving portion for interchangeably receiving a hea...