US Patent Issued to Medtronic Xomed on May 13 for "Non-rotational bone cutting tools and related systems and methods" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,594, issued on May 13, was assigned to Medtronic Xomed Inc. (Jacksonville, Fla.).

"Non-rotational bone cutting tools and related systems and methods" was invented by Manfred K. Luedi (Jacksonville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument employs a mass-spring system to drive the periodic reversal of the rotational direction of a bone dissection head. The instrument comprises a housing, a harmonic oscillator contained in the housing, an output member at least partially received in the housing and configured to be driven by the harmonic oscillator to reversibly rotate about a longitudinal axis in alternating direction...