ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,314, issued on March 4, was assigned to Medacta International SA (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland).
"Surgical device" was invented by Luka Cakic (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland), Francesco Siccardi (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland), Sascha Berberich (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland), Riccardo Lucchini (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland) and Gianluca Parisi (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical device for arthroscopy includes an insertion arm having a folded contact end, a handle connected to a connection end of the insertion arm, opposite to the folded contact end, and extending transversely to the inser...