US Patent Issued to Aesculap on Oct. 20 for "Surgical device" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,890, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Surgical device" was invented by Franz-Peter Firmbach (Emmingen-Liptingen, Germany) and Lilli Stoffels (Calw, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical device and surgical system for use in a total knee arthroplasty. The surgical device is configured for aligning an extramedullary alignment rod, and has a supporting portion having at least two supporting geometries. The supporting geometries are each adapted for support on an anterior edge of a tibia. A reference portion projects in an anterior direction from the supporting portion and has at least two...