US Patent Issued to ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DE TECHNIQUES AVANCEES, ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HOPITAUX DE PARIS on March 3 for "Activation tool for a bone expansion apparatus" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,424, issued on March 3, was assigned to ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DE TECHNIQUES AVANCEES (Palaiseau, France) and ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HOPITAUX DE PARIS (Paris).

"Activation tool for a bone expansion apparatus" was invented by Natacha Kadlub (Paris), Jean Boisson (Paris), Jeremy Dallard (Joinville-le-Pont, France) and Emilie Su (Montreuil, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an activation tool (3) comprising in particular: a coupling device (17) interposed between a first shaft (9) and a second shaft (15), which is configured to couple the first shaft (9) and the second shaft (15) in a first mode, referred t...