US Patent Issued to BIEDERMANN TECHNOLOGIES on May 26 for "Bone anchor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,054, issued on May 26, was assigned to BIEDERMANN TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & Co. KG (Donaueschingen, Germany).

"Bone anchor" was invented by Timo Biedermann (Trossingen, Germany), Berthold Dannecker (St. Georgen, Germany) and Bernd Fischer (Braunlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone anchor includes a shank with a first end, an opposite second end, and a longitudinal axis. The shank includes a core, a thread that extends in a helix around the core and that has a lower flank directed towards the first end and an upper flank directed towards the second end, wherein the upper flank and the lower flank define a first cross-section...