US Patent Issued to MICROPORT ORTHOPEDIC HOLDINGS on March 25 for "Patient specific surgical guide locator and mount" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,944, issued on March 25, was assigned to MICROPORT ORTHOPEDIC HOLDINGS INC. (Tiel, Netherlands).

"Patient specific surgical guide locator and mount" was invented by Michael Carroll (Memphis, Tenn.), Richard Obert (Germantown, Tenn.) and Paul Stemniski (Arlington, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resection guide locator includes a bone engagement portion with surfaces that are complementary to the surface topographies of a bone to be resected during surgery. A housing includes a socket defined by a resilient annular wall that is sized and arranged so to accept a resection guide by press-fit to thereby position and hold the rese...