US Patent Issued to DePuy Synthes Products on Oct. 6 for "Temporary antimicrobial cement spacer, assembly, kit, and method of manufacture" (Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Inventors)

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

"Temporary antimicrobial cement spacer, assembly, kit, and method of manufacture" was invented by Geoffrey Navarro Vale (Fall River, Mass.), Charles Florek (Downingtown, Pa.), David A. Armbruster (West Chester, Pa.), Stanley J. Kmiec Jr. (Morgantown, Pa.), Eric M. Cozzone (Glenmoore, Pa.), Junior Julien (West Chester, Pa.) and Michael Good (West Chester, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to temporary antimicrobial-eluting cement spacer implants, and assemblies, kits, and methods for forming the same. Particularly pr...