US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Aug. 11 for "Independent surgical screw placement system with aiming jig" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,431, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Independent surgical screw placement system with aiming jig" was invented by Jesse Rush (Wayne, Pa.), Richard Scheinfield (Philadelphia), Garret Norton (Phoenixville, Pa.) and Jessica Sandoe (Lansdale, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An independent, surgical screw placement system makes use of an aiming jig. The aiming jig has components and features which can be suitably adjusted so that an independent or extra-plate screw avoids crossing the nominal trajectories of other joint screws securing a surgical plate to a foot in an associated surgery. The aimi...