ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,385, issued on March 4, was assigned to AUGMEDICS LTD. (Yokneam Illit, Israel).
"Universal tool adapter" was invented by Stuart Wolf (Yokneam, Israel), Nissan Elimelech (Beerotaim, Israel) and Tomer Gera (Kfar-Tavor, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool adapter, consisting of an adapter arm having a proximal end terminating with a connection and a distal end having a circular coupling, the circular coupling having a center and defining an axis orthogonal to the circular coupling and passing through the center. The adapter also has a tool grip rotatingly connected to the circular coupling so as to permit rotation of the tool g...