US Patent Issued to MEDICHANICAL ENGINEERING on May 6 for "Measuring equipment for use in connection with hip prosthesis surgery" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,452, issued on May 6, was assigned to MEDICHANICAL ENGINEERING APS (Vejle, Denmark).

"Measuring equipment for use in connection with hip prosthesis surgery" was invented by Eske Winther Petersen (Aalborg, Denmark) and Poul Torben Nielsen (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measuring adapter for a measuring instrument for use in connection with hip prosthesis surgery comprises a measuring head and a connector. The measuring head comprises a front end, a rear end and convex upper surface and is divided into at least two separate sections. The measuring head comprises an axially extending central through-going bore adapte...