US Patent Issued to Heraeus Medical on May 26 for "Augmentation device, composite and method for producing a composite" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,156, issued on May 26, was assigned to Heraeus Medical GmbH (Wehrheim, Germany).

"Augmentation device, composite and method for producing a composite" was invented by Sebastian Vogt (Wehrheim, Germany) and Thomas Kluge (Wehrheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Augmentation material having a wire and, in axial alignment along the wire, a plurality of groups of axially adjacent connecting elements that extend radially from the wire, wherein the connecting elements are designed such that, when a first group from the plurality of groups is pressed together with a further group from the plurality of groups, the connecting element o...