US Patent Issued to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. on June 16 for "Unicondylar instruments and procedures" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,547, issued on June 16, was assigned to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. COMPANY (Ringaskiddy, Ireland).

"Unicondylar instruments and procedures" was invented by Kevin M Amesbury (Leeds, Great Britain), James E Barnett (Leeds, Great Britain) and Andrew Dixon (Leeds, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Instrumentation and a method for unicompartmental knee replacement procedure are described. The surgical instrumentation may include a unicondylar posterior femoral cutting guide, a unicondylar tibial cutting block assembly and a unicondylar femoral cutting guide. The method may include inserting the unicondylar posterior femoral cutting g...