US Patent Issued to MEDACTA INTERNATIONAL on March 17 for "Surgical tool for positioning a surgical device, surgical device and kit" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,870, issued on March 17, was assigned to MEDACTA INTERNATIONAL SA (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland).

"Surgical tool for positioning a surgical device, surgical device and kit" was invented by Takashi Kaito (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland), Keitaro Matsukawa (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland), Geert Mahieu (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland), Ralph Mobbs (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland), Yuichiro Abe (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland), Meinrad Fiechter (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland), Francesco Siccardi (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland) and Gianluca Milano (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical tool for pos...