US Patent Issued to Stryker on Oct. 28 for "Systems and methods for supporting and stabilizing a patient during hip distraction" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,669, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for supporting and stabilizing a patient during hip distraction" was invented by William Kaiser (Campbell, Calif.), Christina Lagarto (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Conrad Smith (Hollister, Calif.), Nicolas Olivares (Centennial, Colo.) and Ian Kovacevich (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for hip distraction includes positioning a patient on a slide-resisting pad placed on a surgical table; tilting the surgical table so that the patient is in a first degree of inclination; applying a distraction force to a leg of the patient whil...