US Patent Issued to ADVANCED TRAUMA SOLUTIONS on Dec. 16 for "Universal clamp apparatus for bone fixation device" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,097, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ADVANCED TRAUMA SOLUTIONS LLC (Decatur, Ga.).

"Universal clamp apparatus for bone fixation device" was invented by Bruce H. Ziran (Decatur, Ga.), Patrick Kelly Capeheart (Dahlonega, Ga.), Christian Lutz (Heikendorf, Germany), Ole Prien (Kiel, Germany) and Roman Rau (Kiel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A universal clamp apparatus for orthopedic exterior fixators is disclosed. Preferably, the universal clamp apparatus has two pin/rod clamps, each having seating grooves for attaching to a frame rod associated with a frame of the fixator and/or a bone pin for implantation in a bone fragmen...