ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,970, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Medartis Holding AG (Basel, Switzerland).
"Plate for temporarily bridging fragments of a fracture" was invented by Scott Graham Edwards (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Daniel Ebi (Niederdorf, Switzerland), Julia Faschian (Laufenburg, Germany) and Simon Martin Schatzle (Gottenheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a plate (10) for temporarily bridging fragments of a fracture having a proximal portion (11), a distal portion (12), and an intermediate portion (13) disposed between the proximal portion (11) and the distal portion (12). The proximal portion (11) has a proximal att...