ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,163, issued on June 23, was assigned to DePuy Synthes Products Inc. (Raynham, Mass.).
"Bone plate with form-fitting variable-angle locking hole" was invented by Simon Bosshard (Bern, Switzerland), Jesse Rush (Telford, Pa.), Michael McGurk (Williamstown, N.J.) and Christopher Keegan (Hatboro, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone plate includes at least one variable angle locking hole that is configured to threadedly mate with a variable angle locking screw oriented so as to define any angle among a range of angles with respect to a central axis of the VA locking hole at which a threaded head of the locking screw is configured to ...