US Patent Issued to Orthotaxy on Nov. 3 for "System for the treatment of a planned volume of a body part" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,597, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Orthotaxy S.A.S. (Gieres, France).

"System for the treatment of a planned volume of a body part" was invented by Stephane Lavallee (Saint Martin D'Uriage, France), Matias De La Fuente Klein (Aachen, Germany), Klaus Radermacher (Stolberg, Germany), Annegret Niesche (Aachen, Germany), Meiko Muller (Aachen, Germany), Gregory Dez (Grenoble, France) and Herve Collet (Chatenay, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a surgical system comprising: (i) a handheld device (100) comprising: a base (1), an end-effector (2) for mounting a surgical tool or tool guide, an actuation unit (...