ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,070, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GANYMED ROBOTICS (Paris).
"Retractable cutting guide" was invented by Thomas Clause (Paris), Samuel El Guedj (Genneville, France) and Blaise Bleunven (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting guide aimed at being connected to a surgical cutting tool, including: a casing, a cutting blade, a sliding mechanism connected to the casing, a sliding unit coupled to the casing via the sliding mechanism, the sliding unit further cooperates by sliding with the sliding mechanism, a blade maintaining element carried by the sliding unit, being designed to cooperate with the cutting blade in order to ma...