US Patent Issued to Zimmer on Feb. 3 for "Linear electric surgical hammer impact tool" (Virginia, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,157, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Zimmer Inc. (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Linear electric surgical hammer impact tool" was invented by Alexander Slocum (Bow, N.H.) and Nitin Goyal (Mclean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are linear electric surgical hammer impact tools and methods of use thereof. The linear electric surgical hammer impact tools can include a housing, a slider, a shuttle, and a motor. The housing can define a cavity extending along a longitudinal axis of the housing. The slider can be located inside the cavity and arranged along the longitudinal axis of the housing. The shuttle can be located inside the c...