US Patent Issued to Exactech on Nov. 25 for "Humeral trays with tuberosity augments sufficiently designed to improve joint mechanics" (Florida, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,479, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Exactech Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Humeral trays with tuberosity augments sufficiently designed to improve joint mechanics" was invented by Christopher Roche (Gaineville, Fla.), Howard David Routman (North Palm Beach, Fla.), Raymond Anthony Klug (Long Beach, Calif.) and Corey Mitchell Gaydos (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a prosthetic augment designed to reconstruct a lateral tuberosity shape of a humerus in a subject having proximal bone loss that includes a humeral adapter tray configured to connect a humeral liner of a reverse shoulder prosthesis to a humeral...