ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,179, issued on April 29, was assigned to Medacta International SA (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland).
"Surgical device" was invented by Francesco Siccardi (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland), Sascha Berberich (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland), Gianluca Parisi (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland), Riccardo Lucchini (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland) and Luka Cakic (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical device comprising a handling member comprising a sleeve with a central slot and a guiding pin, a guiding element that can be slid into the central slot and externally having a guiding groove that is slidably couple...