US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Oct. 27 for "Systems and methods for bone fixation anchor, plate, and spacer devices" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,245, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for bone fixation anchor, plate, and spacer devices" was invented by Brian Flint (Fort Washington, Pa.), Christina Tiongson (Norristown, Pa.) and James Gault (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods of bone fixation. The bone fixation system includes a bone plate having an upper surface and a lower surface configured to be in contact with bone, the bone plate having a locking hole extending from the upper surface to the lower surface. The locking hole is configured to receive a locking fastener. The locki...