US Patent Issued to Stryker European Operations on March 24 for "Surgical input device, system and method" (Indian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,339, issued on March 24, was assigned to Stryker European Operations Ltd. (Carrigtwohill, Ireland).

"Surgical input device, system and method" was invented by Ingmar Wegner (Waldkirch, Germany), Mukul Kashmira (Haldwani, India) and Rachana Gupta (Guwahati, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical input device configured to enable manual user input to a remote computing system is described. In one example, the surgical input device comprises an interface configured to be attachable to a surgical object such as a patient bone. The surgical input device further comprises a manually operable input wheel infinitely rotatable relat...