US Patent Issued to Black Forest Medical on July 14 for "Head stabilization system and method with cassette features" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,361, issued on July 14, was assigned to Black Forest Medical GmbH (Germany).

"Head stabilization system and method with cassette features" was invented by Severin Moosmann (Friesenheim, Germany) and Matthias E. Schuele (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary head stabilization devices or head fixation devices (HFDs) for supporting and stabilizing a head of a patient during a medical procedure include a positioning assembly defining an axis of rotation. The positioning assembly includes a selectively rotatable portion that is rotatable about the axis of rotation to adjust a rotational position of the rotatable port...