ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,351, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Spinol Ltd. (Modi'in, Israel).
"Implant" was invented by Roey Shafrir (Modi'in, Israel), Haim Shlalom Shnider (Netanya, Israel) and Shahar Dror (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implant constituted of: a body exhibiting a longitudinal axis; proximal arms extending from the body, each of the proximal arms extending in a respective direction and exhibiting a respective acute angle with the longitudinal axis, the body positioned between the proximal arms; distal arms extending from the body, each of the distal arms extending in a respective direction and exhibiting a respective a...