ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,962, issued on March 25, was assigned to Medos International Srl (Le Locle, Switzerland).
"Multipoint fixation implants and related methods" was invented by Kevin Lee (Canton, Mass.), Mark Hall (Bridgewater, Mass.), Christopher Ramsay (West Wareham, Mass.), John Riley Hawkins (Cumberland, R.I.), Albert Montello (Duxbury, Mass.), Joseph Peterson (South Dartmouth, Mass.), Benjamin Johnston (Quincy, Mass.), Heiko Koller (Waldeck-Alraft, Germany), Todd Albert (Penn Valley, Pa.), Christopher Ames (Mill Valley, Calif.), Bradford Currier (Rochester, Minn.), Claudius Thorne (Innsbruck, Austria) and Masashi Neo (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trad...