ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,673, issued on June 2, was assigned to Encore Medical LP (Austin, Texas).
"Device for assembling implant systems" was invented by Kevin Michael Wills (Austin, Texas), David Link (Austin, Texas), Heather Fewell (Spring, Texas), Adam Shallenberg (Austin, Texas), Annika Westerberg (Austin, Texas), Michael Nyland (Austin, Texas) and Michael Trolinger (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implant assembly device configured to press an inner femoral head into a plastic outer femoral head by means of actuator system. The actuator system embodies a unique pawl system that acts to reduce the occurrence and severity of device jamming...