US Patent Issued to UMC UTRECHT HOLDING on April 29 for "Tool system for removing prosthetic cement from a bone of a patient undergoing a joint prosthesis replacement operation" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,201, issued on April 29, was assigned to UMC UTRECHT HOLDING B.V. (Utrecht, Netherlands).

"Tool system for removing prosthetic cement from a bone of a patient undergoing a joint prosthesis replacement operation" was invented by Bart Cornelis Hendrikus Van Der Wal (Utrecht, Netherlands), Henri Charles Vogelij (Utrecht, Netherlands), Hermannus Hendricus Weinans (Utrecht, Netherlands) and Lucas Alphonsus Maria Evers (Utrecht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing a tool system for removing prosthetic cement from a bone of a patient undergoing a joint prosthesis replacement operation includes scanning the patie...