ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,371, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Joint Preservation Innovations LLC (Naperville, Ill.).
"Articulating rotary cutting tool" was invented by Sanjeev Bhatia (Naperville, Ill.), Peter J. Millett (Edwards, Colo.) and James Orrico (Evanston, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary cutting tool including an elongated housing having a proximal end and a distal end, the elongated housing extends circumferentially around a first axis. A drive shaft disposed within the elongated housing and extending between the proximal end and the distal end and rotatable about the first axis. A cutting bit housing coupled to the distal end of the...