US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Feb. 10 for "Screw tower and rod reduction tool" (Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,117, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audobon, Pa.).

"Screw tower and rod reduction tool" was invented by Matthew Bechtel (Philadelphia), Caelan Allen (Ambler, Pa.), Neil R. Crawford (Chandler, Ariz.), Thomas Calloway (Pelham, N.H.), Steven Chang (Phoenix), Norbert Johnson (North Andover, Mass.) and Jeffrey Forsyth (Cranston, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a screw tower, an instrument, and a housing. The instrument includes a driver shaft extendable longitudinally through the screw tower, and a threaded sleeve mounted on a proximal portion of the driver shaft. The housing includes one or ...