US Patent Issued to The Fourth Medical Center of the Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital on May 26 for "Augmented reality (AR)-assisted enhanced fracture reduction fixator" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,042, issued on May 26, was assigned to The Fourth Medical Center of the Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital (Beijing).

"Augmented reality (AR)-assisted enhanced fracture reduction fixator" was invented by Licheng Zhang (Beijing), Peifu Tang (Beijing), Chi Ma (Beijing), Xiang Cui (Beijing), Houchen Lv (Beijing), Junsong Wang (Beijing) and Jiaxu Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented reality (AR)-assisted enhanced fracture reduction fixator includes a bidirectional telescopic rod and two connecting columns, a ball groove is provided in a middle part of each of the two connecting columns, a ball is rotata...