ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,897, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Calibration and adjustment determination of a surgical handpiece system" was invented by Trevor Jonathan Lambert (Portage, Mich.), Adam Simon (Richland, Mich.), Brendan Schneider (Portage, Mich.) and Rahul Sharma (Gurgaon, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical handpiece system capable of determining a suitable screw length for bone fixation with a bone plate that compensates an initial screw length value based on orientation of the surgical handpiece system during a drilling process. The surgical handpiece system comprising a surgical handpiece inclu...