US Patent Issued to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. on April 22 for "Assemblies and kits for reaming orthopedic joints, and method of assembling reamer for said" (British, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,780, issued on April 22, was assigned to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. COMPANY (Ringaskiddy, Ireland).

"Assemblies and kits for reaming orthopedic joints, and method of assembling reamer for said" was invented by Bharathiraj Pandiaraj (Ringaskiddy, Great Britain), Dipumon Ayyanchira Mani (Delhi, India), Vivek Thunoli (Leeds, Great Britain), Duncan Beedall (Leeds, Great Britain) and James Naylor (Leeds, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for reaming a bone comprising: a base comprising a connector adapted to couple the base to a driver and a support surface; a first reaming member comprising: a first seating surface shaped to...