US Patent Issued to HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS on June 10 for "Guides and instruments for improving accuracy of glenoid implant placement" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,598, issued on June 10, was assigned to HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP. (Mahwah, N.J.).

"Guides and instruments for improving accuracy of glenoid implant placement" was invented by Nicolas R. Neichel (Le Sappey en Chartreuse, France) and Benoit Le Negaret (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for making a glenoid guide that includes obtaining scapula surface profile information of a specific patient, providing a manufacturing plan for making the glenoid guide having at least one patient specific contact surface configured to contact a portion of the glenoid rim or glenoid surface and for making the guide ha...