US Patent Issued to Medacta International on March 25 for "Patient-specific guide for total prosthetic knee revision" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,950, issued on March 25, was assigned to Medacta International SA (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland).

"Patient-specific guide for total prosthetic knee revision" was invented by Francesco Siccardi (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland), Massimiliano Bernardoni (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland), Andrea Parrinello (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland) and Gianluca Gargantini (Castel San Pietro, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A femoral component and a tibial component are respectively configured to exclusively couple with the distal end of a femur bearing a femoral prosthesis and with the proximal end of a tibia bearing a tibial prosthes...