US Patent Issued to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. on Sept. 30 for "Femoral surgical instrument and method of assembling same" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,899, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. COMPANY (Ringaskiddy, Ireland).

"Femoral surgical instrument and method of assembling same" was invented by Craig S. Tsukayama (Fort Wayne, Ind.), Rebecca L. Chaney (Warsaw, Ind.), William R. Macumber (Edwardsburg, Mich.), Janelle M. Lubensky (Winona Lake, Ind.), Duncan G. Young (Yorkshire, Great Britain), Jonathan C. Lee (Mishawaka, Ind.), Jeffrey M. Walcutt (Fort Wayne, Ind.), Francisco A. Amaral (Acushnet, Mass.), Carl F. Livorsi (Lakeville, Mass.) and Peter J. James (Nottingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orthopaedic surgical instrument may includ...