US Patent Issued to Flexi Oscar d.o.o. on Feb. 10 for "External load bearing distracting device for an articulating anatomical joint" (Croatian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,107, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Flexi Oscar d.o.o. (Zagreb, Croatia).

"External load bearing distracting device for an articulating anatomical joint" was invented by Mislav Jelic (Zagreb, Croatia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An external load bearing distracting device, which can be positioned to fully unload a knee joint cartilage while providing the knee joint normal motion, for an articulating anatomical joint. The device includes a first and second rotatable threaded rods arranged longitudinally on opposite sides of a rotating joint, and first and second translational tubes slidably arranged around the first and second r...