ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,748, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Surgical instrument" was invented by Shinya Tsusaka (Osaka, Japan), Akinori Mori (Otsu, Japan) and Masahiko Hashida (Toyonaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present disclosure is to provide a surgical instrument that can facilitate adjustment between a progressive position gap and a flexed position gap by additionally resecting a bone after resection of a femur distal portion. A surgical instrument (1) includes a body portion (2) including a first abutment surface (5) abuttable against a distal end resection surface (102) of a femur distal ...