ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,292, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS INC. (Raynham, Mass.).
"Smart plate sensors" was invented by George Mikhail (Downingtown, Pa.), Jochem Walser (Bottmingen, Switzerland), Binh Vu (Thorndale, Pa.), Navid Shahriari (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Erfan Sheikhi (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Seulki Lee (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Mark Fichman (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient monitoring system, including: a bone plate configured to be secured to a bone; a plurality of sensors on the bone plate configured to: measure a parameter; transmit a data signal communicating the measured parameter v...