ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,142, issued on May 20, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).
"Intramedullary tibia alignment system" was invented by Alexis Vouaux (Poulangy, France) and Christophe Girouard (Sarcicourt, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intramedullary tibia alignment system includes an alignment rod, a tibial resection guide and a tibial alignment jig. The tibial alignment jig has a sliding rail, a casing slidably receiving the sliding rail and being attached to the alignment rod, and a user adjustment element rotatably held by the alignment rod. The user adjustment element is functionally connected to the casing by a link elemen...