ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,787, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Depuy Synthes Products Inc. (Raynham, Mass.).
"Bone fixation monitoring system" was invented by George Mikhail (Chester Springs, Pa.), Glen Pierson (West Chester, Pa.), Jochen Walser (Zuchwil, Switzerland), Jacob Marks (Raynham, Mass.), Jared Schneider (Raritan, N.J.) and Christopher Shane (West Chester, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring the ossification of an internally fixated fracture in a bone of a subject includes an implantable fixation device and an external wireless reader operative to transmit relative load data experienced by a bone plate across a fracture to a ...