US Patent Issued to Biomet Manufacturing on July 15 for "Method and apparatus for implanting a knee prosthesis" (Missouri, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,477, issued on July 15, was assigned to Biomet Manufacturing LLC (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Method and apparatus for implanting a knee prosthesis" was invented by Nathan Belcher (Ferguson, Mo.) and Bradley T. Durcholz (Warsaw, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing a femur for receiving a prosthesis. The method includes the following: fixing a femoral trial component to the femur; coupling a reamer bushing relative to the femoral trial component; reaming a cavity into the femur using the reamer bushing as a guide; coupling at least one of a modular femoral box trial and a stem adapter relative to the femoral trial component...