US Patent Issued to Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children on Nov. 11 for "Hip off-loading device and method" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,492, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children (Dallas).

"Hip off-loading device and method" was invented by Harry K.W. Kim (Dallas), Mikhail L. Samchukov (Coppell, Texas) and Brad Niese (Southlake, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes a hip-off-loading device including a pelvic assembly including a pelvic base plate configured for attachment to a human pelvis; a distraction adjustment mechanism coupled to the pelvic base plate, wherein the distraction adjustment mechanism is lockable, to provide for adjusting the distal distraction of the hip-off-loading device; and a...