US Patent Issued to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. COMPANY LOUGHBEG INDUSTRIAL ESTATE on June 16 for "Femoral neck resection jig" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,545, issued on June 16, was assigned to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. COMPANY LOUGHBEG INDUSTRIAL ESTATE (Ringaskiddy, Ireland).

"Femoral neck resection jig" was invented by David Beverland (Holywood, Great Britain), Sarah Radcliffe (Manchester, Great Britain) and Jason Naylor (Leeds, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a surgical apparatus for performing a controlled resection of the neck of a femur during a hip replacement procedure, the surgical apparatus comprising: a body portion. The body portion comprises a frame that is mountable on a femoral head of the femur to position the body portion with respect t...