US Patent Issued to Medos International on April 21 for "Instruments and methods for delivering bone cement to a bone screw" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,195, issued on April 21, was assigned to Medos International Sarl (Le Locle, Switzerland).

"Instruments and methods for delivering bone cement to a bone screw" was invented by Cory Emil (Milton, Mass.), Richard W. Fournier (New Bedford, Mass.), Eric Biester (Barrington, R.I.) and Ellen E. Wasserbauer (Mendon, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Instruments and methods for delivering bone cement are disclosed herein. In one exemplary embodiment, the instrument includes a cannulated bone screw having a head that is configured to be received within a rod receiver and a shank extending distally from the head and configured to extend di...