US Patent Issued to HENRY SCHEIN on Dec. 30 for "Scoring blade and method for bone cement removal from intramedullary canal" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,035, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to HENRY SCHEIN INC. (Melville, N.Y.).

"Scoring blade and method for bone cement removal from intramedullary canal" was invented by Brian David Parlato (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Alfred Anthony Litwak (Keyport, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An osteotome blade that is optimized for cutting and removal of bone cement such as from an intramedullary canal during revision surgery. The blade may have a body and a tip, wherein the body cross-section and tip are trough-shaped and the tip has a swept-back configuration. Further away from the cutting region, the blade may have a transition region and a ...