US Patent Issued to Empirical Spine on April 14 for "Sacral tether anchor and methods of use" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,421, issued on April 14, was assigned to Empirical Spine Inc. (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

"Sacral tether anchor and methods of use" was invented by Todd Alamin (Woodside, Calif.), Louis Fielding (San Carlos, Calif.), Darin Gittings (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hugues Malandain (Mountain View, Calif.), Anand Parikh (San Diego), Eller Torres (Vista, Calif.) and Ian Bennett (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for restricting flexion of a spinal segment in a patient comprises a constraint device having a tether structure and a compliance member coupled with the tether structure. The tether structure is adapted to be coupled with a...