US Patent Issued to Biomet Manufacturing on Sept. 23 for "Method for implanting a hip prosthesis and related system" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,688, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Biomet Manufacturing LLC (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Method for implanting a hip prosthesis and related system" was invented by Jason Meridew (Warsaw, Ind.), William Jason Slone (Silver Lake, Ind.), Mark Scrafton (Warsaw, Ind.), John White (Winona Lake, Ind.) and Seth Nash (Fort Wayne, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of implanting a hip joint prosthesis into a patient can include obtaining image data of hip joint anatomy of the patient. Physical activities that the patient desires to participate in subsequent to implanting the hip prosthesis can be determined. A size and an initial placemen...