ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,760, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Conmed Corp. (Largo, Fla.).
"Meniscal transplant system" was invented by Adrian E. Bosworth (Bradenton, Fla.) and Peter C. Miller (Largo, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A workstation having a pair of posts on either side of a clamping plate where a donor bone may be placed on sequentially cut in three separate cutting paths. Cutting gates are attached to the posts and used to provide cutting paths that can be precisely oriented with respect to the meniscus of the donor bone part using visual alignment without any manual measurements. The graft is affixed to a machining clamp and shaved t...