US Patent Issued to OMICRON ORTHOPEDIC TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 23 for "Devices for dynamic sizing and sagittal balancing in total knee arthroplasty" (Illinois, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,625, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to OMICRON ORTHOPEDIC TECHNOLOGY LLC (Chicago).

"Devices for dynamic sizing and sagittal balancing in total knee arthroplasty" was invented by Timothy Chandler Keating (Chicago) and Arthur William Keating (Efland, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes one or more embodiment of devices for assisting femoral component placement in total knee arthroplasty. The device may include a distractor configured to provide a constant distracting force. The distractor may include a main body of the distractor, a tibial paddle fixedly connected to the main body, the tibial paddle...