ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,945, issued on July 8, was assigned to Medos International Sarl (Le Locle, Switzerland).
"Patient-mounted surgical support" was invented by Andrew Medeiros (Fall River, Mass.), Zoher Bootwala (Foxboro, Mass.), Nicholas Miller (Raynham, Mass.) and Roman Lomeli (Plymouth, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical support instruments are described herein that can couple to, e.g., an implanted anchor and provide a platform for coupling other surgical implements thereto. In one embodiment, an instrument can include an elongate body having opposed projections extending laterally from a distal portion thereof that can at least partially ...