US Patent Issued to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. COMPANY LOUGHBEG INDUSTRIAL ESTATE on June 2 for "Surgical instruments and methods" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,659, issued on June 2, was assigned to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. COMPANY LOUGHBEG INDUSTRIAL ESTATE (Ringaskiddy, Ireland).

"Surgical instruments and methods" was invented by Jason Naylor (Leeds, Great Britain), Stephen Robinson (Leeds, Great Britain), Charlie Weston (Leeds, Great Britain) and Caroline Wither (Leeds, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cement restrictor inserter instrument (130) comprises an inserter (131) having a handle (132) at a proximal end, a cement restrictor attachment formation (137) at a distal end for releasably attaching a cement restrictor (150), a shaft (136) extending from the proximal end to the ...