US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on July 21 for "Cranial spring apparatus and methods" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,566, issued on July 21, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Cranial spring apparatus and methods" was invented by Jesse A. Goldstein (Pittsburgh), Justin Beiriger (Pittsburgh) and Henry Weinrieb (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cranial spring for treatment of craniosynostosis includes two arms that extend from a center point or center portion and have a space or gap disposed between end portions of the arms. Each of the arms can include a foot portion configured to distribute a spring force over a wider surface area of bone relative to conventional cranial...