US Patent Issued to BIEDERMANN TECHNOLOGIES on Nov. 3 for "Coupling assembly for coupling a rod to a bone anchoring element, polyaxial bone anchoring device and modular stabilization device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,639, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to BIEDERMANN TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & Co. KG (Donaueschingen, Germany).

"Coupling assembly for coupling a rod to a bone anchoring element, polyaxial bone anchoring device and modular stabilization device" was invented by Lutz Biedermann (VS-Villingen, Germany), Wilfried Matthis (Weisweil, Germany), Dimosthenis Dandanopoulos (VS-Schwenningen, Germany) and Achim Schunemann (VS-Muhlhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coupling assembly is provided comprising a receiving part (6) having a first end (6a), a second end (6b) and a central axis (C) extending through the first end and second end, a r...