US Patent Issued to SMITH & NEPHEW, SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG SMITH, NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC on March 18 for "Methods and system for manufacturing a joint implant" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,164, issued on March 18, was assigned to SMITH & NEPHEW INC. (Memphis, Tenn.), SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG SMITH (Zug, Switzerland) and NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Methods and system for manufacturing a joint implant" was invented by Sied W. Janna (Memphis, Tenn.), John Rose (Collierville, Tenn.), Darren J. Wilson (Hull, Great Britain) and Helen K. Brantley (Germantown, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for treating osteochondral defects (OCDs) are disclosed. The methods include collecting surface data of a joint using image-free methods, generating a three-dimensional (3D) healthy bone mode...