US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITE DE POITIERS, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE-CNRS, CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE POITIERS on July 21 for "Device for helping to bend surgical rods" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,575, issued on July 21, was assigned to UNIVERSITE DE POITIERS (Poitiers, France), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE-CNRS (Paris) and CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE POITIERS (Poitiers, France).

"Device for helping to bend surgical rods" was invented by Arnaud Germaneau (Miganloux Beauvoir, France) and Tanguy Vendeuvre (Poitiers, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for helping to bend a rod that can be implanted in a patient, the method including the following steps: acquiring one or more measurements of distance and/or angle between elements of a vertebral column of the patient; determining a type of verteb...