US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York on Aug. 19 for "Systems and apparatuses for manipulating bendable allografts" (New York, Pennsylvania, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,239, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York).

"Systems and apparatuses for manipulating bendable allografts" was invented by Gerard Agop Ateshian (New York), Brandon Kendrick Zimmerman (Narvon, Pa.), Courtney Adair Petersen (Holladay, Utah) and Melvin P. Rosenwasser (Palisades, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Surgical forceps device comprising a pair of shanks and a clamping jaw portion, the clamping jaw surfaces set at an angle that produces a desired angular position for grasping a bendable osteochondral allograft."

The patent was filed on April 20, 2021, unde...