US Patent Issued to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. on Sept. 23 for "Orthopaedic system with medial pivoting femoral component and insert" (California, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,753, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. COMPANY (Ringaskiddy, Ireland).

"Orthopaedic system with medial pivoting femoral component and insert" was invented by Stephen E. White (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and William J. Maloney (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orthopaedic system includes a tibial insert and a femoral component configured to articulate on the tibial insert. The tibial insert includes an articular surface, and the femoral component includes a femoral articular surface having decreasing radii of curvature posteriorly. The articular surface of the tibial insert includes an increased anter...