ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,087, issued on April 1, was assigned to Waldemar Link GmbH & Co. KG (Hamburg, Germany).
"Sleeve augment device for an articulated joint" was invented by Eckhard Bauer (Kiel, Germany) and Helmut D. Link (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augment device for a joint endoprosthesis, the device comprising: a sleeve having a top and a bottom, a distance between said top and said bottom defining an entire height of said sleeve, wherein the sleeve surrounds a channel extending through the sleeve from the top to the bottom of the sleeve wherein the channel is configured to receive a stem of the joint endoprosthesis; the sleev...