ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,023, issued on July 1, was assigned to Medacta International SA (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland).
"Cutting guide for spinal osteotomy" was invented by Francesco Siccardi (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland), Meinrad Fiechter (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland) and Yuri Insinna (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting guide for spinal osteotomy comprises two polyhedral blocks, each polyhedral block comprising a respective tubular guide member, each tubular guide member extends from a proximal opening to a distal opening and has an axial cavity extending along a longitudinal axis; a connecting bridge which conne...