US Patent Issued to BIEDERMANN TECHNOLOGIES on March 31 for "Coupling device for coupling a rod to a bone anchor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,933, issued on March 31, was assigned to BIEDERMANN TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & Co. KG (Donaueschingen, Germany).

"Coupling device for coupling a rod to a bone anchor" was invented by Timo Biedermann (Trossingen, Germany) and Bernd Fischer (Braunlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coupling device for coupling a rod to a bone anchor includes a receiving part configured to receive a head of the bone anchor, the receiving part having a first end and a second end, a central axis that extends between the first and second ends, and two legs at the first end that define a recess extending in a longitudinal direction transverse to the ...