ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,262, issued on July 1, was assigned to TORNIER SAS (Montbonnot-Saint-Martin, France).
"Convertible stem/fracture stem" was invented by Pierric Deransart (Saint Martin d'Uriage, France), Cyrille Aroun Koumar Fleury (Lyons, France), Vincent Gaborit (Saint Martin d'Heres, France), Pascal Boileau (Nice, France), Christopher R. Chuinard (Traverse City, Mich.), Philippe Clavert (Illkirch Graffenstaden, France), Luc Favard (Montlouis, France), James Kelly (San Francisco), Sumant Krishnan (Dallas) and Francois Sirveaux (Villers les Nancy, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A humeral anchor for a shoulder prosthesis is disclosed. The humera...