US Patent Issued to Medos International on Feb. 17 for "Instruments and related methods for breaking reduction tabs" (Australian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,256, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Medos International Sarl (Le Locle, Switzerland).

"Instruments and related methods for breaking reduction tabs" was invented by Seetal Erramilli (Mulgrave, Australia), Frank Spratt (Middleboro, Mass.), Grant Mellor (Eltham, Australia), Chris Culhane (Chadstone, Australia), Ben Stungo (Templestowe, Australia) and Joanna Talis (Lane Cove, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Instruments and related methods for breaking reduction tabs are disclosed herein, e.g., for breaking reduction tabs of a bone anchor or other implant. In some embodiments, the instrument can be configured to minimize the ...