US Patent Issued to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. on May 13 for "Implants, systems and methods of using the same" (Indiana, Michigan, Maryland, Missouri, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,853, issued on May 13, was assigned to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. COMPANY (Ringaskiddy, Ireland).

"Implants, systems and methods of using the same" was invented by Brian C. Hodorek (Winona Lake, Ind.), Alec Cunningham (Fort Wayne, Ind.), Russ M. Parrott (Winona Lake, Ind.), Matthew J. Purdy (Winona Lake, Ind.), J. Michael Wiater (Beverly Hills, Mich.), Anand M. Murthi (Baltimore), Matthew J. Smith (Columbia, Mo.), Derek J. Cuff (Venice, Fla.), Andrew Jawa (Cambridge, Mass.) and Luke Austin (Haddonfield, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implants, device, systems and methods for replacing an articulation surface in a joint, for example, a...