US Patent Issued to CarboFix Spine on June 23 for "Method of manufacturing a core and shell coupling of a composite material bone implant and composite material bone implant produced thereby" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,166, issued on June 23, was assigned to CarboFix Spine Inc. (Richardson, Texas).

"Method of manufacturing a core and shell coupling of a composite material bone implant and composite material bone implant produced thereby" was invented by Mordechay Beyar (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Oren Globerman (Kfar-Shemaryahu, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing fiber-reinforced polymer matrix composite material bone screws having threads surfaced with a metallic outer layer is described. In some embodiments, the method includes preparing a metallic outer layer by 3-D printing, inserting a composite material into the metall...