US Patent Issued to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. on Oct. 7 for "Methods, surgical instruments, and associated systems for performing a surgical procedure to balance a patient's knee" (British, American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,656, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. COMPANY (Ringaskiddy, Ireland).

"Methods, surgical instruments, and associated systems for performing a surgical procedure to balance a patient's knee" was invented by Steven Kitch (Warsaw, Ind.), Jeremy Oden (Huntington, Ind.), Graeme John Dutton (Burnley, Great Britain), Takayuki Nakamura (Saitama, Japan) and Kevin Cooney (New Haven, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, surgical instruments, and associated systems of performing orthopaedic surgical procedures on a patient's knee are disclosed."

The patent was filed on May 31, 2022, under Application No. 17/828,495....