US Patent Issued to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. on June 10 for "Orthopaedic surgical system for determining joint forces of a patient's knee joint" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,752, issued on June 10, was assigned to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. COMPANY (Ringaskiddy, Ireland).

"Orthopaedic surgical system for determining joint forces of a patient's knee joint" was invented by Jason T. Sherman (Warsaw, Ind.), Michael J. Rock (Leeds, Great Britain), Daren L. Deffenbaugh (Winona Lake, Ind.) and Kyle S. Moore (Acushnet, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orthopaedic surgical system includes a sensor module for determining the joint force of a patient's knee joint and an adaptor for coupling various tibial trialing components to the sensor module. The sensor module includes a tibial paddle to which the adaptor is c...