US Patent Issued to DePuy Synthes Products on June 16 for "Threaded locking structures for affixing bone anchors to a bone plate, and related systems and methods" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. RE50,915, issued on June 16, was assigned to DePuy Synthes Products Inc. (Raynham, Mass.).

"Threaded locking structures for affixing bone anchors to a bone plate, and related systems and methods" was invented by Simon M. Bosshard (Bern, Switzerland), Michael McGurk (Williamstown, N.J.), Mirko Rocci (Bettlach, Switzerland) and Stefan Dude (Neuendorf, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone plate includes at least one hole extending through the bone plate from an upper plate surface to a lower plate surface along a central hole axis that is oriented along an axial direction. The at least one hole defined by an interior surface of th...