ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,993, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).
"Alignment device for a tibial resection guide" was invented by Franz-Peter Firmbach (Emmingen-Liptingen, Germany), Roland Boettiger (Rietheim-Weilheim, Germany) and Berna Richter (Muehlheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alignment device for a tibial resection guide includes a clamping device having at least two clamping elements acting against one another for clamping the distal end of a tibia of a patient. A contact device for contacting the proximal end of the tibia includes a tool guiding device for guiding a tool during the resection of the tib...