ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,880, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to KYON AG (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Saw blade for tibial plateau leveling osteotomy" was invented by Slobodan Tepic (Zurich, Switzerland) and Stephen Bresina (Davos, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a surgical instrument for performing closing wedge osteotomies by a single step procedure."

The patent was filed on July 28, 2021, under Application No. 18/006,016.

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