Virtual Patent Marking

Products sold by Flower Orthopedics Corporation, d/b/a Conventus Flower Orthopedics, its subsidiaries and affiliates are protected by patents and pending patent applications in the U.S. and elsewhere. This website is provided to satisfy the virtual patent marking provisions of various jurisdictions including the virtual patent marking provisions of the America Invents Act and provide notice under 35 U.S.C. §287(a).


The following is an exemplary list of products and of patents which does not include all of the patents and products sold by Flower Orthopedics Corporation, d/b/a Conventus Flower Orthopedics. For example, some products listed here may be covered by patents in the United States and elsewhere that are not listed, and other products not listed here may be protected by one or more patents in the United States and elsewhere. Additionally, patent applications may be pending in the United States and elsewhere related to the listed products.


Absence of any Flower Orthopedics Corporation product from this list does not prevent enforcing any and all legal rights associated with the product.

ProductU.S. PatentsOUS Patents
Flex-Thread® Intramedullary Nail System10,485,595
10,154,863
10,492,838
10,136,929
NiTE Force™ Continuous Compression System11,234,746
11,224,467
11,890,042
10,478,238
11,278,333
8,048,134
2,017,224,110 - Australia
201,780,024,562 - China
261,289; 275,015 - Isreal
526,224; 393,169 – India
7,084,879 - Japan
Flower Ready-For-Surgery® System10,499,962
10,772,669
8,506,607
11,065,042
10,631,881
11,596,419
Cage™8,906,022
9,993,277
8,287,538
9,788,870
9,517,093
10,603,087
11,399,878
8,961,518
9,848,889
EP2249718 – Europe
206,972 - Isreal

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