US Patent Issued to DePuy Synthes Products on July 21 for "Low-profile metallic orthopaedic surgical instruments" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,538, issued on July 21, was assigned to DePuy Synthes Products Inc. (Raynham, Mass.).

"Low-profile metallic orthopaedic surgical instruments" was invented by Daniel D. Fritzinger (Warsaw, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A number of low-profile metallic orthopaedic surgical instruments are disclosed. An orthopaedic surgical instrument may include a metallic base plate sized to be positioned on a patient's bone, where the base plate includes (i) a bone-facing surface having a first elongated opening defined therein and (ii) an outer surface positioned opposite the bone-facing surface, and a metallic guide body extending from the ou...