ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,416, issued on March 24, was assigned to META TECHNOLOGIES S.R.L. (Reggio Emilia, Italy).
"Surgical instrument for scraping and collecting bone particles" was invented by Corrado Saverio Parmigiani (Correggio, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical tool (10) for scraping and collecting bone particles, comprising: -a handle (20) provided with a handgrip (21); -a collection chamber (25) having an end proximal to the handgrip (21) and a free distal end; -a stem (30) at least partially arranged inside the collection chamber (25); -a blade (40) fixed to a front end (32) of the stem (30), wherein the blade (40) protrudes radially...