US Patent Issued to Howmedica Osteonics on Oct. 20 for "Load sensor balancer instruments" (New York, Washington, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,008, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Howmedica Osteonics Corp. (Mahwah, N.J.).

"Load sensor balancer instruments" was invented by Steven F. Harwin (New York), Mohamed Soliman (Fair Lawn, N.J.) and An Chen (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are apparatuses and methods for performing joint balancing procedures. The apparatus may have femoral paddle and a tibial paddle attached to a housing. The housing may include a distraction mechanism to vary the space between the femoral paddle and the tibial paddle. The tibial paddle may lie entirely within the femoral paddle in a closed position. A load sensor may...