US Patent Issued to Howmedica Osteonics on April 7 for "Rotary arc patella articulating geometry" (New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,168, issued on April 7, was assigned to Howmedica Osteonics Corp. (Mahwah, N.J.).

"Rotary arc patella articulating geometry" was invented by Stuart L. Axelson Jr. (Succasunna, N.J.), Robert Davignon (Morris Plains, N.J.), Sanghita Bhattacharya (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Michael C. Ferko (Warwick, N.Y.) and Peter Wellings (Somerset, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are patellar implants and methods to prepare bone for receiving the same. The patellar implant may include an articulating surface with an elliptically shaped median ridge. The anterior surface of the patellar implant may have a non-planar surface to engage ...