US Patent Issued to INNO4SPINE on July 21 for "Connector implant for extending a spinal construct" (Swiss, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,568, issued on July 21, was assigned to INNO4SPINE AG (Stans, Switzerland).

"Connector implant for extending a spinal construct" was invented by Daniel Haschtmann (Kusnacht, Switzerland), Heiko Koller (Kufstein, Austria), Dezso Janos Jeszenszky (Kusnacht, Switzerland), Tamas Fulop Fekete (Zurich, Switzerland) and Tom Overes (Attiswil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is an object of the present invention to overcome at least some of the problems associated with elongating an existing pedicle screw and rod construct. To this end, there is proposed a spinal rod assembly for elongating an in situ spinal posterior rod system...