US Patent Issued to MEDARTIS HOLDING on July 14 for "Screw, system comprising a screw and a plate, and method for producing a screw" (German, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,206, issued on July 14, was assigned to MEDARTIS HOLDING AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Screw, system comprising a screw and a plate, and method for producing a screw" was invented by Andreas Mullis (Hemmiken, Switzerland), Dirk Thiel (Staufen, Germany), Patrick Mark Sesiani (Schworstadt, Germany), Stefan Olivier Wurger (Lausen, Switzerland), Jurgen Schonhardt (Rheinfelden, Germany) and Hermann Zeuner (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a screw (1), preferably a bone screw, comprising a shaft (2) with a tip (3), a head (4) and a thread (5). The shaft further comprises a longitudinal axis (A). An arra...