ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,198, issued on July 14, was assigned to Stryker European Operations Ltd. (Carrigtwohill, Ireland).
"Mechanisms for strut length measurement" was invented by Rustam Ali (Bokaro Steel City, India), Arpit Gautam (Gurgaon, India), Manpreet Basur (Faridabad, India), Somesh Modi (Bikaner, India), Rajan Yadav (New Delhi) and Peter Sterrantino (Palisades Park, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A strut for use with an external fixation system may include first and second joints proximate the first and second ends of the strut, the first and second joints configured to couple to first and second rings of the external fixation system. The str...