US Patent Issued to K-SPINE, IGNITE-CONCEPTS on July 21 for "Visualisation device to provide information on the desired shape of a posterior spinal rod" (Austrian, American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,567, issued on July 21, was assigned to K-SPINE GMBH (Kufstein, Austria) and IGNITE-CONCEPTS GMBH (Attiswill, Switzerland).

"Visualisation device to provide information on the desired shape of a posterior spinal rod" was invented by Justin Smith (Charlottesville, Va.), Heiko Koller (Kufstein, Austria) and Tom Overes (Attiswil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rod shape visualisation device (1) is proposed for providing information on the desired shape of a posterior spinal rod during a bending process whilst being arranged in a sterile operation area. The rod shape visualisation device (1) comprises: (a) a sterile case (1...