US Patent Issued to Howmedica Osteonics on Feb. 17 for "Reamer for augmented glenoid implant" (Irish, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,220, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Howmedica Osteonics Corp. (Mahwah, N.J.).

"Reamer for augmented glenoid implant" was invented by Lance N. Terrill (Rochestown, Ireland), Michael Shabelman (Fair Lawn, N.J.) and Sunny Shorabh (Ghaziabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reaming device for preparing a glenoid of a patient may include a base configured for mounting to bone and an oscillatory rasp configured to be translatable in a proximal-distal direction relative to the base while the base is coupled to the glenoid of the patient."

The patent was filed on June 11, 2024, under Application No. 18/740,021.

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