US Patent Issued to Stryker European Operations on Aug. 11 for "Method and device for reproducing position and orientation of (long) bone fragments" (German, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,794, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Stryker European Operations Ltd. (Carrigtwohill, Ireland).

"Method and device for reproducing position and orientation of (long) bone fragments" was invented by Jakob Kemper (Heemstede, Netherlands), Lars Metz (Kiel, Germany), Ulrich Hoffmann (Breisach, Germany), Fabian Huegle (March, Germany), Andreas Petersik (Heikendorf, Germany), Heiko Gottschling (Munich) and Manuel Schroeder (Elingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and device for reproducing position and orientation of bone and long bone fragments, and in particular to a method and device for reproducing position and orient...