US Patent Issued to Smith & Nephew on April 29 for "Controlled randomized porous structures and methods for making same" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,547, issued on April 29, was assigned to Smith & Nephew Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Controlled randomized porous structures and methods for making same" was invented by Ryan L. Landon (Memphis, Tenn.), Aashiish Agnihotri (Memphis, Tenn.), Laura J. Gilmour (Memphis, Tenn.), Jeffrey Sharp (Memphis, Tenn.) and Randy C. Winebarger (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved randomized porous structures and methods of manufacturing such porous structures are disclosed. The scaffold of the porous structures are formed from by dividing the space between a plurality of spatial coordinates of a defined volume, where the plurality of sp...