ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,643, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Shukla Medical (St. Petersburg, Fla.).
"Implant extractor" was invented by Mitchell Ryan Kiska (Seminole, Fla.) and Zachary Robert Sweitzer (Keyport, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implant extractor for use in orthopedic surgeries. The implant extractor provides a line of force substantially parallel to an implant to be extracted. The implant extractor includes a curved body having a curved jaw track configured to slidingly receive a correspondingly curved jaw for clamping a trunnion of an implant, e.g., a hip stem implant. A push rod urges the curved jaw into clamping engagement with t...