US Patent Issued to Wake Forest University Health Sciences on Nov. 4 for "Smart surgical screwdriver" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,422, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Smart surgical screwdriver" was invented by Philip J. Brown (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Andrea Morgan Rich (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and Aaron Ross Van Gorkom (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are surgical tool systems and methods for installing a fixator in biological tissue with precision and efficiency. These systems are designed to measure torque and rotational velocity accurately while providing real-time feedback to the user during surgical procedures. Utilizing integrated sensors, the system calculates torque...