ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,729, issued on June 2, was assigned to CONDOR Medtec GmbH (Salzkotten, Germany).

"Hypomochlion of an operating table" was invented by Ira Fecke-Schulte (Delbruck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating table hypomochlion includes a control device for a support arm mounted therein and longitudinally adjustable in a transverse recess of a pivotable control disk, an end femoral support, and a reverse pivot lock releasable in pivoting direction. A biased control wedge engages a wedge gap between a functional surface of the control device and a convex front-side control surface of the control disk. The support arm and femoral ...