ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,050, issued on July 29, was assigned to Just Medical Devices (Tianjin) Co. Ltd. (Tianjin, China).

"Hip prosthesis containing zirconium-niobium alloy on oxidation layer and preparation method thereof" was invented by Nian Liu (Tianjin, China), Jinduo Ye (Tianjin, China), Haoqiang Ti (Tianjin, China) and Hongxiu Zhou (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses the hip prosthesis containing zirconium-niobium alloy on oxidation layer and a preparation method thereof, the hip prosthesis comprises a femoral stem, a femoral head, liners and a shell; the shell and femoral stem are prepared by using zirconi...