US Patent Issued to Aesculap on Sept. 8 for "Implant for fixing a cranial bone flap in a cranial opening" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,918, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Implant for fixing a cranial bone flap in a cranial opening" was invented by Thomas Hagen (Tuttlingen, Germany), Jana Kuemmerlin (Regensburg, Germany), Erick Drost (Oberndorf a.N., Germany), Jakob Onken (Mainz, Germany), Martin Nonnenmann (Wurmlingen, Germany), Tina Dekold (Rottweil, Germany) and Thomas Pleil (Bad Duerrheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implant for fixing a cranial bone flap in a cranial opening includes a first portion designed to transfer force to the bone flap, a second portion designed to transfer force to a skull bone encirc...