ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,962, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Black Forest Medical GmbH (Freiburg Im Breisgau, Germany).
"Head stabilization device with non-uniform pins" was invented by Jan H. Mertens (Freiburg, Germany) and Matthias E. Schuele (Freiburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head stabilization device having the form of a skull clamp includes a first pin assembly and a second pin assembly. The pin assemblies are positioned opposite each other, and the first pin assembly has a first pin while the second pin assembly has a pair of pins. The pins used with the skull clamp are non-uniform. In this respect skull clamp can apply an equal fo...