US Patent Issued to STAR GENERATION on July 15 for "Orthopedic implant that saves bone cutting with drill bits in advance in orthopedic and dental surgeries" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,430, issued on July 15, was assigned to STAR GENERATION Ltd. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Orthopedic implant that saves bone cutting with drill bits in advance in orthopedic and dental surgeries" was invented by Chun-Leon Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orthopedic implant includes a main body, which has a downward tapered configuration formed of a plurality of steps of different diametrical sizes arranged along a drilling axis, each of the steps includes a cylindrical and a conical section, and the conical section of the lowest and diametrically smallest step is downward tapered into an apex; an external thread, whic...