US Patent Issued to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. COMPANY LOUGHBEG INDUSTRIAL ESTATE on June 2 for "Surgical component, kit and method" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,663, issued on June 2, was assigned to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. COMPANY LOUGHBEG INDUSTRIAL ESTATE (Ringaskiddy, Ireland).

"Surgical component, kit and method" was invented by James Anderson (Leeds, Great Britain), Mahsa Avadi (Leeds, Great Britain), Duncan Beedall (Leeds, Great Britain), Timothy Board (Lancashire, Great Britain), Oliver Coultrup (Leeds, Great Britain), John Bohannon Mason (Charlotte, N.C.), Richard Patnelli (Leeds, Great Britain) and Michael Reeve (Tadcaster, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical component, a kit including the surgical component, and a surgical method. The surgical component includes a ...