ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,613, issued on June 10, was assigned to AO Technology AG (Chur, Switzerland).
"Biphasic bone plate" was invented by Markus Windolf (Davos, Switzerland) and Devakara Epari (Newstead, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bone plate (1) with a lower surface (2), an upper surface (3), a maximum thickness measured between the lower and upper surfaces a left lateral surface (4), a right lateral surface (5), a longitudinal axis (6) and a plurality of plate holes (7) miming from the lower surface to the upper surface, the bone plate further having a slot (8) in the lower surface extending from the left lateral surface to the right latera...