US Patent Issued to Medmetalex on Aug. 5 for "Thin-blade chisel system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,866, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Medmetalex Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Thin-blade chisel system" was invented by Hirokazu Amino (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thin-blade chisel system, for separating an outer surface of an orthopedic implant and an inner surface of a bone from each other, includes a thin-blade chisel having a blade tip at a distal end portion in a longitudinal direction, and a hammering direction changing tool engaged with the thin-blade chisel to apply a force in an advancing direction of the blade tip. The thin-blade chisel includes a hammering blow-receiving part, preferably a through hole pene...