US Patent Issued to Highridge Medical on June 23 for "Spinal correction tensioning system" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,152, issued on June 23, was assigned to Highridge Medical LLC (Westminster, Colo.).

"Spinal correction tensioning system" was invented by Hugh D. Hestad (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vertebral column correction system for correcting a spinal deformity without fusing the joint segments is disclosed. The vertebral column correction system may have first and second vertebral anchors secured to first and second vertebrae. The vertebral column correction system may further comprise one or more intermediate vertebral anchors secured to vertebrae between the first and second vertebrae. A connection member may be disposed wi...