US Patent Issued to HIP INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 10 for "Surgical trays, instruments and methods for implanting a hip replacement prosthesis" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,175, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HIP INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY LLC (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Surgical trays, instruments and methods for implanting a hip replacement prosthesis" was invented by Zafer Termanini (Port Saint Lucie, Fla.), Steven Macdonald (London, Canada), Brian Vanhiel (Smyrna, Ga.) and Taylor Davis (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical trays, tools and methods for use in hip replacement surgery wherein the hip replacement prosthesis is a reverse hip prosthesis. The trial components, specialized tools and methods of the invention enable a surgeon to identify the optimum components of the reverse hip prosthesis...