US Patent Issued to DePuy Synthes Products on April 7 for "Expandable medical implant for adolescent cranium defects" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,165, issued on April 7, was assigned to DePuy Synthes Products Inc. (Raynham, Mass.).

"Expandable medical implant for adolescent cranium defects" was invented by Stefan Knueppel (Binningen, Switzerland), Robert Schoutens (Basel, Switzerland) and Steffan Daniel (Solothurn, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to an expandable medical implant for the repair of cranium defects in adolescent patients. The implants of the present disclosure can include a plurality of interconnected links that are movable with respect to each other as the underlying cranium grows and expands."

The patent was filed ...