US Patent Issued to Choice Spine on Oct. 20 for "Bone screw fixation system" (North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,928, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Choice Spine LLC (Knoxville, Tenn.).

"Bone screw fixation system" was invented by Keith Melvin Maxwell (Hendersonville, N.C.), David Wiles (Chattanooga, Tenn.), Julian Price (Bogart, Ga.), Justin Splane (Knoxville, Tenn.), Alicia Henderson (Knoxville, Tenn.), Jayden Garfield (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Matthew B. Kubo (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone screw fixation system includes a bone screw body having a screw head at one end of the screw and a screw tip at an opposite end of the screw, the screw head having an internal complex geometric shaped drive and internal threads wi...