US Patent Issued to Biomet Manufacturing on April 22 for "Knee sizing and balancing instrument" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,973, issued on April 22, was assigned to Biomet Manufacturing LLC (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Knee sizing and balancing instrument" was invented by Jerry J. Lorio (Benton, Ark.) and Brian A. Uthgenannt (Cricklade, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orthopedic instrument for knee arthroplasty includes an anterior-posterior sizer assembly, a tensor assembly and a rotation mechanism. The sizer assembly includes a stylus, a sizer body including medial and lateral posterior feet extending substantially perpendicularly from the sizer body, and a sizer slider that can slide relative to the sizer body along a medial-lateral direction relati...