US Patent Issued to Nextstep Arthropedix on Feb. 3 for "Medical implants having desired surface features and methods of manufacturing" (Ohio, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,215, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Nextstep Arthropedix LLC (Akron, Ohio).

"Medical implants having desired surface features and methods of manufacturing" was invented by Cowan H. Moore (Uniontown, Ohio), Randall R. Theken (Barberton, Ohio), Christopher Lee Fries (Fresno, Calif.), Eric Montgomery Lucas (Stow, Ohio) and Richard Barros (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In embodiments of the invention, an implant that anchors into bone may have a bone-facing region that comprises a plurality of interconnected struts. The interconnected struts may define local features such as engagement ridges, fins, crests, a macr...