US Patent Issued to Nexus Spine on July 15 for "Methods for developing porous implants of optimal properties" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,726, issued on July 15, was assigned to Nexus Spine LLC (Salt Lake City).

"Methods for developing porous implants of optimal properties" was invented by Peter Halverson (Draper, Utah) and David T. Hawkes (Pleasant Grove, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A porous implant design method includes defining a design volume for a porous implant, a load to be borne by the design volume, and an objective function solution characteristic related to the design volume. Next, the load is divided into a plurality of sub-loads and an optimization procedure is performed: until all sub-loads have been applied, one of the plurality of sub-loads is ...