US Patent Issued to Orthofix, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children on Aug. 11 for "Programmable tool for external fixation strut adjustment" (Italian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,445, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Orthofix S.R.L. (Bussolengo, Italy) and Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children (Dallas).

"Programmable tool for external fixation strut adjustment" was invented by Andrea Forcolin Cominotto (Padua, Italy), Nicola Gaburro (Caselle di Sommacampagna, Italy), John David Ross Jr. (Ovilla, Texas), Karen Divita Standefer (Flower Mound, Texas), Mikhail Samchukov (Coppell, Texas) and Alexander Cherkashin (Flower Mound, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool for adjusting an external fixation strut includes a first connecting portion adapted to perform data communication with the external fixatio...