US Patent Issued to K2M on July 14 for "Flexible fastening system" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,202, issued on July 14, was assigned to K2M Inc. (Leesburg, Va.).

"Flexible fastening system" was invented by Behrooz Akbarnia (La Jolla, Calif.), Burt Yaszay (San Diego), Brandon Moore (Leesburg, Va.), Stuart Weikel (Leesburg, Va.) and Clint Boyd (Leesburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible implant system includes a flexible implant, an implant housing, and an implant set screw. The flexible implant is configured to loop around a portion of a bony element. The implant housing includes a housing body defining a rod passage configured to receive an rod. The housing body also defines an implant passage that receives a porti...