US Patent Issued to DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS on June 10 for "Impaction handle for implanting a tibial tray of an orthopaedic knee prosthesis and associated method of making the same" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,749, issued on June 10, was assigned to DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS INC. (Raynham, Mass.).

"Impaction handle for implanting a tibial tray of an orthopaedic knee prosthesis and associated method of making the same" was invented by Rakshak Nemiraj (Karnataka, India), Nicholas A. Miltner (Fort Wayne, Ind.), Colton D. Steiner (Warsaw, Ind.) and Bernice A. Gatrell (Columbia City, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impaction handle for use during a surgical procedure to implant a tibial tray into a surgically-prepared proximal end of a tibia includes an impact plate defining a proximal end of the impaction handle and an impact head defining...