US Patent Issued to TITA-LINK on June 30 for "Bone anchor with a drilling template connecting to this bone anchor and method for manufacturing the bone anchor and the drilling template" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,374, issued on June 30, was assigned to TITA-LINK B.V. (Tervuren, Belgium).

"Bone anchor with a drilling template connecting to this bone anchor and method for manufacturing the bone anchor and the drilling template" was invented by Hugo De Clerck (Tervuren, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing at least one bone anchor and a corresponding drilling template, wherein the bone anchor has an anchor plate which is to be fixed to the surface of a bone by means of one or several screws having a screw head. The anchor plate thus has a bone side which is to connect to the surface of the bone and a free side which ...