ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,910, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY WONJU CAMPUS (Wonju-si, South Korea).
"Vertical drilling guide and flatness measuring device for bone conduction implant" was invented by Young Joon Seo (Wonju-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a device that can guide perpendicular drilling and simultaneously measure flatness of an insertion surface through a locking protrusion by rotating the device in bone conduction implantation. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to measure flatness and guide perpendicular boring with a constant...