US Patent Issued to Stryker European Operations Holdings on March 31 for "Surgical saw for actuating a saw blade with an oscillating head, the saw having a coupling assembly for releasably holding the saw blade" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,912, issued on March 31, was assigned to Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC (Portage, Mich.).

"Surgical saw for actuating a saw blade with an oscillating head, the saw having a coupling assembly for releasably holding the saw blade" was invented by James G. Walen (Portage, Mich.), Robert Brindley (Delton, Mich.), Liam C. Cosgrove (County Clare, Ireland) and Trevor Land (Richland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of navigating a surgical saw with a navigation system having a navigation processor. The method comprising attaching a saw blade to a head of the surgical saw and determining a position of the surgical saw...