ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,218, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. (Memphis, Tenn.).
"Talar implant" was invented by Meghan Kubacki (Memphis, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a total talar replacement prosthesis that has a metallic body shell and a metallic or biologic core, where the metallic body shell includes one or both of a removable calcaneus attachment and a removable navicular attachment. The attachments, when removed, exposes a respective calcaneus-facing surface or a navicular-facing surface that can enhance fusion to the respective bones, calcaneus and/or navicular."
The patent was filed on Aug. 30, 202...