ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,256, issued on April 21, was assigned to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. COMPANY (Cork, Ireland).
"Implant removal tool" was invented by Jose S. Rivera Jr. (Naples, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implant removal tool used to remove a femoral implant from a femur bone by providing a substantially U-shaped body having a substantially rectangular-shaped opening located thereon that allows the substantially U-shaped body to be placed over a neck of a femoral implant so a sharpened front edge of the substantially U-shaped body makes direct contact with an inner surface of the stem of the femoral implant. The U-shaped body may have front sid...