US Patent Issued to SMITH & NEPHEW, SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS, SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC on Nov. 4 for "Methods and arrangements for external fixators" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,404, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SMITH & NEPHEW INC. (Memphis, Tenn.), SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG (Zug, Switzerland) and SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Methods and arrangements for external fixators" was invented by Andrew P. Noblett (Bartlett, Tenn.), Johnny R. Mason (Bartlett, Tenn.), Paul Bell (Memphis, Tenn.), Haden Janda (Germantown, Tenn.), Shawn Standard (Cockeysville, Md.) and Benjamin Ollivere (Nottingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Logic may provide a deformity analysis to create a treatment plan for external fixators. Logic may further perform additional refinements to the tr...