US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on April 7 for "Posterolateral instrumentation treatment system and methods" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,098, issued on April 7, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Posterolateral instrumentation treatment system and methods" was invented by Ankit Mehta (Chicago) and Philip Ostrov (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlled delivery of fluids to the exterior of bone and surrounding tissue of a patient includes providing a cannulated bone rod. The method further includes creating an aperture in the skin of a patient and fixating the rod along bones or bone fragments using a spinal fixation system through the aperture. A spinal fixation system includes a bone screw havin...