US Patent Issued to EPISURF IP-MANAGEMENT on Feb. 25 for "Method of designing and positioning a medical implant and an implant comprising a positioning mark" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,966, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to EPISURF IP-MANAGEMENT AB (Stockholm).

"Method of designing and positioning a medical implant and an implant comprising a positioning mark" was invented by Nina Bake (Lidingo, Sweden), Maria Kroll (Jonkoping, Sweden) and Niklas Hero (Bankeryd, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for designing an implant comprising designing a contour curvature of the implant so that an articulating surface of the implant is designed to correspond to a simulated healthy articulating surface of a damaged articulating surface of a joint. The implant is provided with at le...