US Patent Issued to DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS on Nov. 25 for "Clavicle segmental plate system" (Swiss, British, Belgian, American, Chinese, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,415, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS INC. (Raynham, Mass.).

"Clavicle segmental plate system" was invented by Martin Zenker (Zuchwil, Switzerland), Andre Galm (Basel, Switzerland), Martin Bammerlin (Basel, Switzerland), Marcel Schweizer (Zuchwil, Switzerland), Arabella Fontana (Zuchwil, Switzerland), Daniel Andermatt (Mohlin, Switzerland), Simon Lambert (London), Stefan Nijs (Leuven, Belgium), Harry Hoyen (Cleveland), Martin Jaeger (Freiburg im Breisgau, Denmark) and Chunyan Jiang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medial plate for treating fractures along a clavicle, comprising a plate body including...