US Patent Issued to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. on Feb. 10 for "Surgical reamer and method of reaming a bone" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,081, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. COMPANY (Ringaskiddy, Ireland).

"Surgical reamer and method of reaming a bone" was invented by James Anderson (Leeds, Great Britain) and Timothy Board (Bury, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical reamer and a method of reaming a bone using a surgical reamer. The reamer has a distal part comprising a proximal end coupleable to a surgical rotational driver; a distal end; a rotational axis extending between the proximal end and the distal end; and a cutting surface located between the proximal end and the distal end. The reamer also has a proximal part compri...