US Patent Issued to Howmedica Osteonics on July 15 for "Targeting tool for virtual surgical guidance" (French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,389, issued on July 15, was assigned to Howmedica Osteonics Corp. (Mahwah, N.J.).

"Targeting tool for virtual surgical guidance" was invented by Sergii Poltaretskyi (Ependes, Switzerland) and Pascal Boileau (Nice, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example physical targeting tool includes a main body defining a channel configured to receive a tool, the channel having a longitudinal axis; a first physical targeting feature attached to the main body; and a second physical targeting feature attached to the main body, wherein the first physical targeting feature and the second physical targeting feature are displaced along the long...