ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,426, issued on June 17, was assigned to Howmedica Osteonics Corp. (Mahwah, N.J.).
"Press fit stem" was invented by Damon J. Servidio (Towaco, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of implanting a medical implant includes resecting a long bone along a shaft of the bone so as to form a resected surface and remove a metaphysis of the bone. A tapered bore is reamed through the resected surface of the long bone and into an intramedullary canal thereof. A tapered portion of a stem of a medical implant is fully seated within the tapered bore so as to form a press-fit between the tapered portion of the stem and the long bone and so th...