ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,210, issued on May 20, was assigned to DePuy Synthes Products Inc. (Raynham, Mass.).
"Surgical impactor arrays" was invented by Herve Collet (Chatenay, France), Nicolas Demanget (Saint-Egreve, France), Gregory Dez (Grenoble, France), Anthony Leandri (Isere, France) and Arnaud Robert (Isere, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for navigational arrays for attaching to surgical tools, the arrays comprising a frame comprising fiducials for detection by an optical navigation system, and a body having a first end for supporting the frame and a second end defining an opening, wherein the opening...