US Patent Issued to DePuy Synthes Products on Oct. 6 for "Humeral resection guides, and related methods, for use in tissue sparing shoulder arthroplasties" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,720, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to DePuy Synthes Products Inc. (Raynham, Mass.).

"Humeral resection guides, and related methods, for use in tissue sparing shoulder arthroplasties" was invented by Stephen J. Orphanos (Bridgewater, Mass.), Mollie Waters (Boston) and Robert Ciocca (Woonsocket, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for performing a humeral cut, the humeral cut being performed to prepare a surgical site to receive a prosthesis. In at least some embodiments, a humeral resection guide is provided that includes a plurality of arms that can be selectively coupled and decoupled from each other, thus enabli...