US Patent Issued to OrthoIQ on Aug. 26 for "Orthopedic surgery systems and devices for impacting implements in bones" (American, Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,776, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to OrthoIQ LLC (Claremont, Calif.).

"Orthopedic surgery systems and devices for impacting implements in bones" was invented by Alan Aaron Davidner (Claremont, Calif.), Anthony La Rosa (Rockaway, N.J.), Philip Ormond Merritt (La Canada, Calif.), Michael Nogler (Oberperfuss Tirol, Austria) and Jose-Luis Moctezuma De La Berrera (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and devices may include a motor operatively coupled to a driveshaft configured to be driven in a first direction in a first mode for impaction and a second direction in a second mode for retraction. Systems ...