ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,414, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to OLYMPUS TERUMO BIOMATERIALS CORP. (Tokyo).
"Bone plate" was invented by Yasuharu Yokoyama (Tokyo) and Toshihisa Iwanaga (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone plate including a long-plate-shaped main section to be disposed on a side surface of a diaphysis, a transverse section to be disposed on the side surface of an epiphysis, a coupling section coupling the transverse section and the main section to each other. The main section is twisted relative to the transverse section around an axis parallel to a longitudinal axis of the main section. when the bone plate is viewed in a transverse d...