US Patent Issued to WARSAW ORTHOPEDIC on Dec. 30 for "Set screw with strain gauges" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,097, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to WARSAW ORTHOPEDIC Inc. (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Set screw with strain gauges" was invented by Newton H. Metcalf (Memphis, Tenn.), Arjun Siby Kurian (Memphis, Tenn.), Nicholas Benson (Collierville, Tenn.) and Chris E. Johnson (Germantown, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments pertaining to a medical construct are disclosed. The medical construct may include a set screw extending along a longitudinal axis between a proximal portion and a distal portion, for example. In various embodiments, the set screw may have an outside thread form and an interior socket, for example. In various embodiments...