US Patent Issued to Stryker on June 23 for "Method and apparatus for supporting and stabilizing a patient during hip distraction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,293, issued on June 23, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Method and apparatus for supporting and stabilizing a patient during hip distraction" was invented by William Kaiser (Campbell, Calif.), James Flom (Redwood City, Calif.) and Conrad Smith (Hollister, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for positioning a patient on a surgical table for a surgical procedure on a hip of the patient includes removably mounting a table extender to the surgical table in an operating room by releasably attaching mounts of the table extender to side rails of the surgical table, wherein the mounts are configured to mount the t...