US Patent Issued on Aug. 5 for "Unit for the reaming of the surface of joint cartilage and of periarticular bone of an acetabulum and femoral head" (Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,867, issued on Aug. 5.

"Unit for the reaming of the surface of joint cartilage and of periarticular bone of an acetabulum and femoral head" was invented by Piotr Rogala (Poznan, Poland), Jan Rogala (Poznan, Poland), Stanislaw Rogala (Poznan, Poland) and Pawel Zawadzki (Witobel/Steszew, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a unit for reaming of the surface of joint cartilage and of periarticular bone of an acetabulum and femoral head, used in orthopaedical surgery, being used as equipment to prepare the surface of cartilage and periarticular bone for endoprosthesis implantation. The unit is has at least two burrs with a s...