MUMBAI, India, July 11 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541060125 A) filed by Saveetha Institute Of Medical And Technical Sciences, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on June 24, for 'spring retractor for mandibular condyle fracture fixation.'

Inventor(s) include Gouthamkumar V; Murugesan K; and Deepak Nallaswamy Veeraiyan.

The application for the patent was published on July 11, under issue no. 28/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Retraction during condylar fracture reduction and fixation can be an effort-taking and timeconswning process. Conventionally retraction is done manually by using langenbeck retractors. This requires a minimwu of two assistants to the operating ...