ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,941, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to JULIUS-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAT WURZBURG (Wurzburg, Germany).

"Flexible implant for fixating a disjoined pubic symphysis" was invented by Martin Jordan (Wurzburg, Germany), Christian Fischer (Wurzburg, Germany) and Rainer Meffert (Wurzburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implant device, in particular to a pubic symphysis implant device, and to an implant system comprising two such implant devices. The implant device of the invention comprises a bent body comprising a curved middle portion and two lateral arms extending away from the middle portion and being mutually joined by the middle...