ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,733, issued on May 12, was assigned to Bonebridge AG (Zug, Switzerland).
"Olecranon bone plate" was invented by Patrick Burki (Solothurn, Switzerland), Beat Kaspar Moor (Venthone, Switzerland), Christian Spross (Staad, Switzerland) and Martin Olach (St. Gallen, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The bone plate (1) according to the invention is particularly suitable for treating fractures or non-unions and for osteotomies of the olecranon and the proximal ulna. The bone plate (1) has the following parts: a distal longitudinal shaft portion (2) having a number of plate holes (11); a longitudinal central axis (3); and a proximal head...