US Patent Issued to WALDEMAR LINK on July 21 for "Tool for assembling and disassembling implant components" (German, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,650, issued on July 21, was assigned to WALDEMAR LINK GMBH & Co. KG (Hamburg, Germany).

"Tool for assembling and disassembling implant components" was invented by Thomas Schultz (Adendorf, Germany), Alexander Etringer (Bremen, Germany) and Paolo Dalla Pria (Udine, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a tool for assembling and disassembling a first implant component and a second implant component. The tool comprises a proximal end, a distal end, and a longitudinal axis and further includes an elongated force transmission structure for transmitting a force in a direction along the longitudinal axis, the...