US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on June 10 for "Orthopedic implants having circumferential and non-circumferential fibers" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,742, issued on June 10, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Orthopedic implants having circumferential and non-circumferential fibers" was invented by Trent Callcott (Atlanta) and David Ku (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of an artificial meniscus implant are disclosed herein. An artificial meniscus includes at least one circumferential fiber and at least one non-circumferential fiber embedded within an arc-shaped body. The non-circumferential fibers may form loops extending through a peripheral edge of the implant, and the circumferential fibers may extend out of anterior and posterior horns of...