ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,774, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to RADLEY SCIENTIFIC Ltd. (Ashburton, Great Britain).
"Orthopaedic cement removal tools and method" was invented by Stephen Michael Radley Young (Newton Abbot, Great Britain) and Sean Martin Badcott (Paignton, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A series of surgical tools (11, 21, 31, 41, 51, 61, 71, 81) have respective operative heads (16, 26, 36, 46, 56, 66, 76, 86 & 96) mounted adjacent a distal end of an elongate waveguide (12, 13, 14). The operative heads (16, 26, 36, 46, 56, 66, 76, 86 & 96) are used to remove PMMA bone cement (2, 5) from within a hollow bone (1), such as a femur (1...