ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,126, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to MFR Technologies Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Handheld surgical instrument" was invented by Trevor Jacob Laughlin (Minnetonka, Minn.), Jason L Koh (Winnetka, Minn.), Daniel M. Fisher (Maple Grove, Minn.), Brian Philip Beaubien (Saint Paul, Minn.) and Joseph Jude Saladino (Eden Prairie, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A handheld surgical instrument comprising an energy storage element, wherein the energy storage element is a spring coupled to the impacting mechanism, an impacting mechanism has a tip configured to impact a bone, wherein the tip includes a tapered point, a power transmission mec...