US Patent Issued to Howmedica Osteonics on Nov. 4 for "Proximal hip drill clamp with implant" (New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,375, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Howmedica Osteonics Corp. (Mahwah, N.J.).

"Proximal hip drill clamp with implant" was invented by Damon J. Servidio (Towaco, N.J.), Carlos E. Collazo (Old Greenwich, Conn.) and G. Douglas Letson (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool for implanting an orthopedic implant upon a bone includes a body defining an implant socket for releasably retaining an implant and a drill guide opening into the implant socket. The body is an insert receivable in an insert socket of a movable end of the tool. The tool also includes a tip toward which the implant socket faces and opposedly movable relati...