US Patent Issued to Howmedica Osteonics on May 26 for "Additive manufacturing on machined assembled parts" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,157, issued on May 26, was assigned to Howmedica Osteonics Corp. (Mahwah, N.J.).

"Additive manufacturing on machined assembled parts" was invented by Michael Curtis (Kildare, Ireland), Collin Newman (Wayne, N.J.), John Teahan (Cork, Ireland) and Christopher S. Bobish (Middletown, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implant having two adjacent solid parts, a third solid part disposed between the two solid parts, and a porous part extending from the solid parts. The implant is fabricated by a process that includes first assembling the solid parts before additively manufacturing the porous part on surfaces defined by the solid parts. ...