ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,459, issued on Aug. 11.
"Periprosthetic hip fracture cabling system" was invented by Daniel Robert Schlatterer (Dunwoody, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved fracture cabling system has one or more spacers. Each spacer has a longitudinal length extending along a body of the spacer. The body has an upper portion with an aperture configured to receive a wire or cable and a lower portion having one or more pairs of feet spaced by a longitudinal gap or groove. Each of the one or more pairs of feet is located on a lateral side of the spacer body and configured to contact a bone with a fracture. The gap is configured to be posit...