US Patent Issued to Zimmer on Dec. 9 for "Acetabular liner extraction" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,091, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Zimmer Inc. (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Acetabular liner extraction" was invented by Adam Furore (Warsaw, Ind.), Walter W. Thomas (Warsaw, Ind.), Robert D. Krebs (Warsaw, Ind.), Andrew Hartman (Warsaw, Ind.), Jacob Macke (Warsaw, Ind.) and Colin Eric Lasko (Warsaw, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool assembly for extracting a liner from a prosthesis comprising an impactor and a faceplate. The impactor can be configured to receive and transmit a force. The faceplate can be configured to deliver the force from the impactor to the prosthesis to separate the liner from a shell of the prosthesis."

The pa...