US Patent Issued to University of North Carolina at Greensboro on April 14 for "Multi-axial joint laxity testing apparatus and method" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,333, issued on April 14, was assigned to University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Greensboro, N.C.).

"Multi-axial joint laxity testing apparatus and method" was invented by Sandra Janine Shultz (Greensboro, N.C.), Randy Joe Schmitz (Oak Ridge, N.C.), James Avery Coppock (Durham, N.C.) and Sam Seyedin (Greensboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Knee joint laxity testing apparatus includes a thigh cradle assembly, a shank cradle assembly, and a heel cradle assembly. The apparatus is configured to measure knee laxity in three planes of motion: anterior-posterior translations; varus-valgus rotations; and internal-external rotati...