US Patent Issued to Zimmer on May 6 for "Tibial cut guide" (Indiana, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,272, issued on May 6, was assigned to Zimmer Inc. (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Tibial cut guide" was invented by Nolan C. Jones (Warsaw, Ind.), Lindsey R. Rolston (New Castle, Ind.), Jeffery A. VanDiepenbos (New Paris, Ind.), Brian D. Earl (South Bend, Ind.), Anthony Romano (Columbia City, Ind.) and Andrew Freiberg (Weston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses including apparatuses that can be used in a unicompartmental knee replacement procedure, a bicompartmental knee replacement procedure comprised of two unicompartmental knee replacements, a knee replacement procedure that utilizes a single femoral component and two u...