ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,708, issued on May 12, was assigned to T.A.G. Medical Products Corporation Ltd. (Kibbutz Gaaton, Israel).

"Bone material removal device and a method for use thereof" was invented by Leon Slobitker (Carmiel, Israel), Hagay Sitry (Haifa, Israel), Alexander Kotov (Kiryat-Ata, Israel) and Ran Weisman (Kfar-Vradim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone material removal device including a cannula, a bone drilling forward tip and a bore widening element including a bone carving portion that slides axially relative to the cannula and extends in a circumferential direction and wherein the axial movement of the bore widening element rela...