US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Feb. 10 for "System and method for ligament balancing and range of motion tensor for same" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,139, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"System and method for ligament balancing and range of motion tensor for same" was invented by Timothy J. Blackwell (Ft. Pierce, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for ligament balancing including a range-of-motion (ROM) tensor. The ROM tensor of the system includes a main body, first and second arms, a pin guide and a pin. The main body has an elongate guide. The first and second arms are rigidly attached to and extends laterally from the main body and configured to be placed over an uncut tibia and below an uncut femur. The pin guide is slidably c...