US Patent Issued to OrthoPediatrics on March 31 for "Surgical connectors and instrumentation" (Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. RE50,844, issued on March 31, was assigned to OrthoPediatrics Corp. (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Surgical connectors and instrumentation" was invented by David W. Daniels (Winona Lake, Ind.), John Kapitan (Leicester, N.C.), Ryan A. Lewis (Cincinnati), John E. Pendleton (Atlanta) and John J. Souza (Monroe, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device includes a spinal rod receiving channel disposed within the medical device and a rod retaining set screw, wherein the spinal rod receiving channel includes an upper arc having a first end and second end, a first middle arc connected to the first end of the upper arc, a second middle arc connected t...