US Patent Issued to DePuy Ireland UnLtd. on Nov. 4 for "Bone reamer and methods of use" (Indiana, Michigan, Maryland, Missouri, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,373, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to DePuy Ireland UnLtd. Co. (Ringaskiddy, Ireland).

"Bone reamer and methods of use" was invented by Brian C. Hodorek (Winona Lake, 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: "A bone reamer includes a shaft having a first and a second end. The second end is configured to connect to a rotating power source. A head of the reamer include...