US Patent Issued to ARTHROSURFACE on March 24 for "Humeral and glenoid articular surface implant systems and methods" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,531, issued on March 24, was assigned to ARTHROSURFACE Inc. (West Bridgewater, Mass.).

"Humeral and glenoid articular surface implant systems and methods" was invented by Steven W. Ek (Durham, N.H.), Daniel Adam Leduc (Carver, Mass.), William B. Murphy (Brockton, Mass.) and Timothy H. Brightman (Franklin, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shoulder implant system comprising a glenoid implant; a baseplate comprising an implant facing surface to face the glenoid implant; wherein the glenoid implant comprises at least one fixation element configured to engage with at least one fixation element of the baseplate; wherein the at least...