US Patent Issued to Howmedica Osteonics on June 17 for "Additive manufacturing of porous coatings separate from substrate" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,629, issued on June 17, was assigned to Howmedica Osteonics Corp. (Mahwah, N.J.).

"Additive manufacturing of porous coatings separate from substrate" was invented by Gearoid Walsh (Ennis, Ireland), Lewis Mullen (Englewood, N.J.), John Scanlan (Limerick, Ireland) and Robert W. Klein (Orangeburg, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implant is produced by fabricating first and second layers. The first layer of repeated and truncated building units is fused together to define pores. The second layer of repeated and truncated building units are fused together to define pores and fused onto the first layer of truncated building units. T...