US Patent Issued to Kyocera Medical Technologies on March 18 for "Surgical implant device incorporating a lattice volume and associated method of manufacture" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,318, issued on March 18, was assigned to Kyocera Medical Technologies Inc. (Redlands, Calif.).

"Surgical implant device incorporating a lattice volume and associated method of manufacture" was invented by Scott Alan Rucker (Austin, Texas), Joseph Virgil Thompson (Round Rock, Texas), Gregory N. Glazner (Austin, Texas) and Trace Cawley (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a surgical implant device, including: a solid surface; and a lattice structure disposed adjacent to the solid surface, wherein the lattice structure includes a first plurality of struts that define a first plurality of voids a...