US Patent Issued to ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DE TECHNIQUES AVANCEES, ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HOPITAUX DE PARIS, UNIVERSITE DE PARIS on June 24 for "Activation tool for a bone expansion apparatus" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,737, issued on June 24, was assigned to ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DE TECHNIQUES AVANCEES (Palaiseau, France), ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HOPITAUX DE PARIS (Paris) and UNIVERSITE DE PARIS (Paris).

"Activation tool for a bone expansion apparatus" was invented by Natacha Kadlub (Paris), Jean Boisson (Paris), Jeremy Dallard (Joinville le Pont, France) and Nicolas Kogane (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an activation tool (1) for a bone expansion apparatus (3), the bone expansion apparatus (3) being a distraction plate apparatus (3), the activation tool (1) comprising a magnetic element (130) solidly attached to a ...