US Patent Issued to Howmedica Osteonics on Dec. 30 for "Augmented, just-in-time, patient-specific implant manufacture" (New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,134, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Howmedica Osteonics Corp. (Mahwah, N.J.).

"Augmented, just-in-time, patient-specific implant manufacture" was invented by Lewis Mullen (Englewood, N.J.), Robert Carter (Warwick, N.Y.), Marc Esformes (Fishkill, N.Y.), Chau Ngo (Secaucus, N.J.) and Richard Wood (Howell, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone part is repaired by a process. A first implant is attached to a first bone part. The first implant corresponds to an intraoperatively defined or an intraoperatively selected cutting path. A preoperatively defined second implant is attached to the first implant. The first implant and the s...