US Patent Issued on Sept. 30 for "Arrangement and method used in the preparation of bone surfaces of the knee joint for the components of a prosthetic knee joint" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,895, issued on Sept. 30.

"Arrangement and method used in the preparation of bone surfaces of the knee joint for the components of a prosthetic knee joint" was invented by Jonathan Peter Cabot (North Adelaide, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement for minimizing the amount of bone initially required to be resected off surfaces of a knee joint prepared using a plurality of user-operable adjustable extension tabs that define a stability gap derived from gap measurements taken in each of extension, mid-flexion and flexion, wherein the stability gap is commensurate with a reference plane derivable from the arrangement w...