US Patent Issued to NOVASTEP on April 21 for "Osteosynthesis screw with angular indexing relative to the screwdriver and universal compatibility" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,194, issued on April 21, was assigned to NOVASTEP (Rennes, France).

"Osteosynthesis screw with angular indexing relative to the screwdriver and universal compatibility" was invented by Adrien Bousquet (La Meziere, France), Loic Girod (Goven, France) and Remi Le Besque (Bruz, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a clamping screw (6) for osteosynthesis, comprising at least one screw thread (7, 10) along a main axis (X) and, at its end referred to as the apex end (11), having a socket (12) which, about said main axis (A), has evenly angularly distributed shapes designed to accept complementing shapes o...