US Patent Issued to DePuy Synthes Products on Dec. 30 for "Spinal connectors and related methods" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,055, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to DePuy Synthes Products Inc. (Raynham, Mass.).

"Spinal connectors and related methods" was invented by Zoher Bootwala (Foxboro, Mass.), Michael Gorhan (Mansfield, Mass.) and Adam LaWare (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a connector can be configured to couple a first fixation element (e.g., a first rod) to a second fixation element (e.g., a second rod). One or both of the first and second fixation elements can be included with the connector, or one or both can be separately provided. In some instances, at least one of the fixation elements is previously implante...