US Patent Issued to NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED, MAINTAINING THE HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY on Sept. 16 for "System and apparatus for securing knee joint with a load for magnetic resonance imaging" (New Jersey, New York, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,706, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED, MAINTAINING THE HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY (New York).

"System and apparatus for securing knee joint with a load for magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Suzanne Maher (Highland Lakes, N.J.), Scott A. Rodeo (New York), Russell F. Warren (Greenwich, Conn.), Hollis Potter (Greenwich, Conn.), Matthew F. Koff (Livingston, N.J.) and Hongsheng Wang (Elmhurst, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that includes: a force sensor assembly adapted to monitor a load as applied on a subject's knee joint when the force sensor ass...