US Patent Issued to Aesculap on Sept. 22 for "Medially stabilising knee endoprosthesis" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,868, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Medially stabilising knee endoprosthesis" was invented by Berna Richter (Muehlheim, Germany), Brigitte Altermann (Tuttlingen, Germany), Thomas Grupp (Denkingen, Germany), Rachel Lang (Chaumont, France), Alexis Vouaux (Poulangy, France) and Steeven Blanc (Chaumont, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A knee endoprosthesis for total knee arthroplasty has a femur bearing surface and a tibia bearing surface. The femur bearing surface has a medial surface and a lateral surface. The tibia bearing surface has a concave medial shell and a concave lateral shell an...