ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,111, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Medline Industries LP (Northfield, Ill.).
"Plate inserter tool" was invented by Samuel Nader (Arlington Heights, Ill.), Dinesh Koka (Winter Park, Fla.) and Natan Pheil (Highland Park, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is plate insertion tool useful with bone plates having a body and a pair of retainers, such as facing, inwardly extending fingers, for clamping a bone plate therebetween, and a pusher movable relative to the body between a fully disengaged position and a fully engaged position, the pusher in use engaging a shoulder of the compression plate. When the pusher is in an eng...