ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,812, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to RIMASYS GMBH (Cologne, Germany).

"Method for reproducible production of defined bone fractures" was invented by Robert Holz (Cologne, Germany) and Marc Ebinger (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter of the invention relates to a method of reproducible production of defined bone fractures with accompanying soft tissue injuries in specimens, in particular in human specimens, apparatuses for applying the method and the specimens, in particular human specimens, produced with the aid of the method and characterized by a defined bone fracture with accompanying soft tissue i...