ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,159, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Joint Development Inc. (Salt Lake City).
"Dual-purpose orthopedic surgery instrument" was invented by Luca Terziotti (Salt Lake City), Dermott J. McHugh (Salt Lake City) and Eric M. Dacus (Salt Lake City).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The dual-purpose orthopedic instrument includes an elongated body, an impactor block formed from a first end of the elongated body selectively couplable with a modular impactor head and a strike block formed from a second end of the elongated body including a strike surface for selectively receiving a strike force thereof. An externally accessible channel formed w...