US Patent Issued to Stryker European Operations on Sept. 1 for "Locking system for femoral neck fracture fixation" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,663, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Stryker European Operations Ltd. (Carrigtwohill, Ireland).

"Locking system for femoral neck fracture fixation" was invented by Jetinder Singh (Gurgaon, India), Venkateswaran Perumal (Gurgaon, India), Harpreet Singh (New Delhi), Diksha Babhoota (Gurgaon, India) and Abhishek Kulkarni (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixation device for providing rotation stability to a femoral neck fracture. The device includes a bone plate having at least one opening, a compression screw housing extendable through the opening of the bone plate, a compression screw being at least partially disposed...