US Patent Issued to Biomet Manufacturing on Oct. 20 for "Stemless orthopedic implants with sensors" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,001, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Biomet Manufacturing LLC (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Stemless orthopedic implants with sensors" was invented by Kevin Miller (Wakarusa, India), Nathan A. Winslow (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Raymond C. Parisi (Wakarusa, India) and Andrew Scott Payton (Warsaw, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A humeral arthroplasty system includes a sensor device, a humeral head including a first portion of circuitry of the sensor device and an adapter socket, a taper adapter configured to seat within the adapter socket, a stemless humeral anchor couplable to the taper adapter, and a second portion of circuitry of the sensor de...