ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,164, issued on June 23, was assigned to iAccess MedTec GmbH (Freiburg, Germany).
"Bone fixation device" was invented by Christian Knopfle (Bremgarten, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone fixation device (1) is presented, comprising a wire (7) and a load distributor (9), the load distributor comprising: a contact side (2) having a contact region (11) which is pressed against the bone to be fixed upon tightening of the wire (7), and two opposite lateral sides (4) that are not in contact with the bone upon tightening of the wire (7). At least one of the lateral sides (4) is provided with a plurality of recesses (5) which do no...