ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,766, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC (Portage, Mich.).
"Osteosynthesis device" was invented by Jacques Peyrot (Tassin la Demi Lune, France), Tristan Meusnier (Saint-Etienne, France), Bernard Prandi (Rennes, France), Philippe Bellemere (Nantes, France) and Marc Augoyard (Tassin la Demi Lune, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, the present invention includes an intramedullary osteosynthesis or arthrodesis implant including a central body, a first pair of legs extending from the central body to a pair of leg tips, and a second pair of legs extending from the central body, ...