US Patent Issued to Mako Surgical on May 27 for "Femoral component for bone conservation" (Florida, Tennessee, South Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,856, issued on May 27, was assigned to Mako Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Femoral component for bone conservation" was invented by Mark Ellsworth Nadzadi (Memphis, Tenn.), Jason Karl Otto (Sioux Falls, S.D.) and Amit Mistry (Weston, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A femoral prosthetic component includes a patellar guide portion, a pair of condyles projecting from the guide portion and forming an intercondylar notch therebetween, a bearing surface, and an interface surface configured to face a resected surface of a femur. The interface surface comprises an anterior face and a posterior face, and is substantially contoured betwee...