US Patent Issued to DePuy Synthes Products on Oct. 6 for "Controlling impact direction of surgical impacting tools" (Florida, Indiana, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,754, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to DePuy Synthes Products Inc. (Raynham, Mass.).

"Controlling impact direction of surgical impacting tools" was invented by Eric Schmitt (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.), Matthew S. Wallace (Wellington, Fla.), Patrick J. Cannon (Warsaw, Ind.), Jon M. Edwards (Stuart, Fla.), Amisiddhi Vilas Bhosale (Wood-Ridge, N.J.) and Thomas Philipson (Palm City, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, devices, systems, and methods for controlling impact direction of surgical impacting tools are provided. In an exemplary implementation, a handpiece of a surgical impacting tool includes at least one actuator conf...