US Patent Issued to MIMEO MEDICAL on March 3 for "Modular and temporarily fixable osteosynthesis device for vertebrae" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,426, issued on March 3, was assigned to MIMEO MEDICAL GmbH (Filderstadt, Germany).

"Modular and temporarily fixable osteosynthesis device for vertebrae" was invented by Frank Heuer (Filderstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An osteosynthesis device for treating the spine is disclosed including a fork head which is U-shaped in a side view, has two fork legs in the proximal direction with an internal thread, and in which a connecting rod can be received, and a locking element is guided in the internal thread, and the fork head has a spherical head receiving area and is detachably connected to a bone anchor, and the bone ancho...