US Patent Issued to DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS on May 26 for "Tibia aiming jig" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,052, issued on May 26, was assigned to DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS INC. (Raynham, Mass.).

"Tibia aiming jig" was invented by Johanna Menze (Zurich), Andre Weber (Olten, Switzerland), Martin Altmann (Zuchwil, Switzerland) and Andreas Baeriswyl (Buren an der Aare, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aiming jig for a tibia plate, including: a head the interfaces with a head of the tibia plate comprising: screw guide holes corresponding to screw holes in the head of the tibia plate; a fixation protrusion that engages a fixation opening in the head of the tibia plate, wherein an engagement of the fixation protrusion with the fixation ...