ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,413, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to DePuy Synthes Products Inc. (Raynham, Mass.).
"Bone plate and guide block coupling mechanism" was invented by Gregor Spreiter (Basel, Switzerland), Alexander Ludin (Berne, Switzerland) and Marcel Schweizer (Solothurn, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone plate comprises three receiving components. A guide block comprises three coupling components. The first receiving component and the first coupling component mate with one another such that relative motion between the first receiving component and the first coupling component is restricted in a first degree of freedom, a second deg...