US Patent Issued to DePuy Ireland UnLtd. on March 3 for "Hybrid fixation features for three-dimensional porous structures for bone ingrowth and methods for producing" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,496, issued on March 3, was assigned to DePuy Ireland UnLtd. Co. (Ringaskiddy, Ireland).

"Hybrid fixation features for three-dimensional porous structures for bone ingrowth and methods for producing" was invented by Abraham P. Wright (Winona Lake, Ind.), Nicholas A. Miltner (Ft. Wayne, Ind.), Weidong Tong (Warsaw, Ind.), Tyler S. Boggs (Warsaw, Ind.) and Bryan J. Smith (Ft. Wayne, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orthopaedic prosthetic component comprises a fixation peg including a porous three-dimensional structure configured to permit bone in-growth. The porous three-dimensional structure has an outer surface boundary. The fi...