ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,432, issued on March 3, was assigned to Stryker European Operations Ltd. (Carrigtwohill, Ireland).
"Surgical tensioning instrument" was invented by Karl Greiner (Muehlheim, Germany), Manfred Schmuck (Muehlheim-Stetten, Germany), Daniel Gumpert (Denzlingen, Germany) and Viktor Kraft (Schallstadt-Mengen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a surgical tensioning instrument configured to apply a tension to a strap portion of a tensioning member about a target bone or parts thereof. The tensioning member further includes a locking portion configured to cooperate with the strap portion so as to maintain...