US Patent Issued to Warsaw Orthopedic on Nov. 25 for "Surgical frame facilitating articulatable support for a patient during surgery and method for use thereof" (Tennessee, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,533, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Warsaw Orthopedic Inc. (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Surgical frame facilitating articulatable support for a patient during surgery and method for use thereof" was invented by Roy Lim (Germantown, Tenn.), Matthew Morrison (Cordova, Tenn.) and Richard Hynes (Melbourne Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positioning frame and method for use thereof for supporting a patient to facilitate different surgical approaches to the spine is provided. The positioning frame includes a main support beam, first and second support structures, a torso-lift support, and a pelvic-tilt support. The main support beam h...