US Patent Issued to Zimmer on Dec. 16 for "Instruments and systems including a humeral cut guide assembly for an orthopedic shoulder replacement" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,074, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Zimmer Inc. (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Instruments and systems including a humeral cut guide assembly for an orthopedic shoulder replacement" was invented by Donald W. Dye Jr. (Warsaw, India), Michael A. Kay (Peru, Ind.) and Michael Francis Kovacs (Winona Lake, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instrument assembly for an orthopedic procedure is disclosed. The instrument assembly can optionally include any one or combination of a reamer and a cut guide assembly. The cut guide assembly can be configured to couple to the reamer. The cut guide assembly can optionally include any one or combination of a ...