US Patent Issued to WARSAW ORTHOPEDIC on June 3 for "Continuous fiber bone screw and method of manufacture" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,124, issued on June 3, was assigned to WARSAW ORTHOPEDIC Inc. (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Continuous fiber bone screw and method of manufacture" was invented by Keith E. Miller (Germantown, Tenn.), Brian A. Butler (Millington, Tenn.), William A. Rezach (Covington, Tenn.), Jonathan M. Dewey (Memphis, Tenn.), Jeffrey W. Beale (Bartlett, Tenn.) and Julien J. Prevost (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides for a bone screw formed of continuous fibers, for example. The bone screw may include a first portion having a cylindrical shape and extending in a longitudinal direction from a first end to a second end, for...