US Patent Issued to SMed-TA/TD on Aug. 5 for "Orthopaedic implant with fixation feature and a method of implanting thereof" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,893, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SMed-TA/TD LLC (Columbia City, Ind.).

"Orthopaedic implant with fixation feature and a method of implanting thereof" was invented by Joseph W. Jurick (Fort Wayne, Ind.), Steven Dietzel (Warsaw, Ind.) and Gregory C. Stalcup (Fort Wayne, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orthopaedic implant includes an implant body having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The second surface includes a fixation feature. The fixation feature is configured to have a variable width for fastening the implant to a fixation bore formed in a bone. The implant body is D-shaped and has a s...