US Patent Issued to Conmed on Oct. 21 for "Multifunctional PCL guide arm" (American, Swedish, British, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,901, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Conmed Corp. (Largo, Fla.).

"Multifunctional PCL guide arm" was invented by Andrew Kam (Odessa, Fla.), Andrew Muser (St. Pete Beach, Fla.), Kalifa A. Clarke (Pinellas Park, Fla.), Peter Verdonk (Zwijnaarde, Belgium), Bjorn G. Barenius (Stockholm), Seth L. Sherman (Columbia, Mo.), Brian R. Wolf (Iowa City, Iowa) and Timothy Spalding (Leamington Spa, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drill guide arm for providing guidance for placement of a bone tunnel, while protecting against trauma. The guide arm includes a first arm at a proximal end connected at an angle to a second arm, the sec...