ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,387, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SHENZHEN FUTURTEC MEDICAL Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).
"Screw placement system and vertebral pedicle screw placement device" was invented by Shengxiao Zhu (Shenzhen, China), Linzhi Shi (Shenzhen, China), Jiarui Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Tao Zhang (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vertebral pedicle screw placement device of the present application includes a bone drill mechanism and a depth advancing mechanism connected to the bone drill mechanism and used to generate linear reciprocating motion. The bone drill mechanism includes a bone drill driving device and a clamping mecha...