US Patent Issued to MEDACTA INTERNATIONAL on Feb. 10 for "Apparatus for positioning a lower limb of a patient during surgery and surgical positioning system comprising said apparatus" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,290, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MEDACTA INTERNATIONAL SA (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland).

"Apparatus for positioning a lower limb of a patient during surgery and surgical positioning system comprising said apparatus" was invented by Massimiliano Bernardoni (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland), Francesco Siccardi (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland), Ermete Rossi (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland), Mirko Giardiello (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland) and Frederic Laude (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for positioning a lower limb of a patient during surgery comprises at least one support structure connectable, through a ...