ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,171, issued on April 21, was assigned to T.A.G. Medical Products Corporation Ltd. (Kibbutz Gaaton, Israel).

"Guiding device and method of using thereof" was invented by Roy Zilberman (Qadarim, Israel), Hagay Botansky (Haifa, Israel), Ben Zion Spector (Tel-Mond, Israel) and Amir Pansky (Atlit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone drill guiding device including a drill entry part comprising a cannula having a distal end portion and sized to receive a bone drill, a drill exit part comprising a fixation tip portion and a coupling that rigidly couples the drill entry part and the drill exit part so that longitudinal axes of the c...