US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on July 28 for "Ligament balancing tool and method for same" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,783, issued on July 28, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Ligament balancing tool and method for same" was invented by Jason Zappacosta (Philadelphia), Khiem Pham (Chalfont, Pa.) and Hayden Cameron (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ligament balancing system includes a shaft, an array of trackers attached to the shaft, a plunger movably coupled to the shaft and shaped to push against a leg, a force tracking marker attached to the plunger, and a spring coupled to the shaft and the plunger. The spring is configured to be compressed when the plunger pushes against the leg such that a distance between the f...