US Patent Issued to HEMITEC FINLAND on June 23 for "Device for intramedullary nailing of the tibia" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,130, issued on June 23, was assigned to HEMITEC FINLAND OY (Rusko, Finland).

"Device for intramedullary nailing of the tibia" was invented by Mika Hyttinen (Rusko, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device for intramedullary nailing of the tibia which comprises the frame of a framework which consists of vertical supports (2) and longitudinal (3, 4) and transverse horizontal supports (5, 5', 5", 6, 6') and a guide (21): which is slidably coupled to the longitudinal horizontal support (4) of the device. The guide (21) comprises a first finder (11) for adjusting the position of the traction needle (20) in ...