US Patent Issued to Encore Medical on Sept. 23 for "Joint implants having porous structures formed utilizing additive manufacturing and related systems and methods" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,754, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Encore Medical LP (Austin, Texas).

"Joint implants having porous structures formed utilizing additive manufacturing and related systems and methods" was invented by Alex Drew (Austin, Texas), Jeremy Borchert (Cedar Park, Texas), John Green (Leander, Texas) and Rachel Patel (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical implant which comprises a porous lattice is fabricated with additive manufacturing techniques such as direct metal laser sintering. A CAD model of the porous lattice is created by defining a trimming volume and merging some lattice elements with adjacent solid substrat...