US Patent Issued to DePuy Synthes Products on Oct. 6 for "Bone plates having polygonal locking holes with thread interruption, and related systems and methods" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,748, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to DePuy Synthes Products Inc. (Raynham, Mass.).

"Bone plates having polygonal locking holes with thread interruption, and related systems and methods" was invented by Steffan Daniel (Solothurn, Switzerland), Andreas Baeriswyl (Buren an der Aare, Switzerland), Sol Posada (Solothurn, Switzerland), Joel Oberli (Niederdorf, Switzerland), Mirko Rocci (Bettlach, Switzerland) and This Aebi (Grenchen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone plate defines an interior surface that defines: a hole extending through the plate along an axis; plate threads configured for locking with a threaded head of...