ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,521, issued on July 22, was assigned to IlluminOss Medical Inc. (East Providence, R.I.).
"Distal tip for bone fixation devices" was invented by Gene P. DiPoto (Upton, Mass.), Robert A. Rabiner (Barrington, R.I.), Jeffrey P. Brousseau (Barrington, R.I.), Anthony W. O'Leary (Walpole, Mass.), Chi Y. Wong (Canton, Mass.), Augustus C. Shanahan (Newton, Mass.), Nicholas Ferrer (West Greenwich, R.I.) and John Unger (Wrentham, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Distal tip designs for bone fixation devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system for bone fixation includes a delivery catheter having a proximal end and a distal end; an e...