US Patent Issued to Expand Medical on Oct. 6 for "Surgical devices for bone" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,715, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Expand Medical Ltd. (Amirim, Israel).

"Surgical devices for bone" was invented by Arie Levy (Shoam, Israel) and Ofek Levin (Amirim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for making attachments to bone. Bone anchor systems use tools that have elongated shafts useful in arthroscopic or keyhole surgeries. In the bone anchor system, a tool is taken to the site once and used to both make the hole into the bone or tissue and simultaneously carry the anchor into the hole that is being made."

The patent was filed on May 2, 2024, under Application No....