ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,343, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Encore Medical LP (Austin, Texas).
"Implant trial head" was invented by Kevin Michael Wills (Austin, Texas) and Heather Fewell (Spring, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implant trial head includes a distal end, a proximal end including an opening in an exterior surface, and a cavity extending from the opening into the implant trial head. The cavity includes an asymmetric groove in an interior wall of the cavity, the groove aligned substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the implant trial head, and a cross-sectional diameter of the asymmetric groove. The implant trial head i...