US Patent Issued to Stryker European Operations Holdings on Aug. 25 for "Methods and systems for adjusting an external fixation frame" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,467, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC (Portage, Mich.).

"Methods and systems for adjusting an external fixation frame" was invented by Vinzenz Andreas Burgherr (Bern, Switzerland), Adam John Edelhauser (Nyack, N.Y.), Yves Stephane Crozet (Ramsey, N.J.), Marcel Aeschlimann (Ligerz, Switzerland), Christoph Dworzak (Oberthal, Switzerland), Antonino Lanci (Bern, Switzerland) and Markus Mast (Bern, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool for implementing a correction plan in an external fixation frame having a plurality of adjustment elements or screws, for example, generally includes a...