ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,176, issued on May 19, was assigned to Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC (Portage, Mich.).

"Ring hole planning for external fixation frames" was invented by Adam John Edelhauser (Nyack, N.Y.), Ashish Gangwar (Gurgaon, India), Sridhar Anjanappa (Gurgaon, India), Subash K. Mannanal (Mahwah, N.J.) and Patrick Valli (Brookside, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An external fixation system includes first and second fixation members having first and second pluralities of mounting holes, respectively. The first and second plurality of holes are configured to receive first and second ends of a plurality of struts, each strut having a...