ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,173, issued on May 20, was assigned to SIGNUS MEDIZINTECHNIK GMBH (Alzenau, Germany).
"Implant, in particular a spinal implant" was invented by Uwe Siedler (Alzenau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spinal implant, in the form of a multi-part connection device that couples a fastening element to a connection element, including a first part formed as a bracket, which has a receptacle for a part of the fastening element, and a second part in the form of a tulip, which has, in an axially upper region, a receptacle for the connection element and surrounds the bracket receptacle in an axially lower region. When the bracket is asse...