ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,603, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP. (Mahwah, N.J.).
"Patient-specific cutting guide for the shoulder" was invented by Luke Buza (Flemington, N.J.) and Gennaro A. Barile (Secaucus, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are patient-specific cutting guides for guiding a surgical instrument for resecting a portion of a glenoid of a patient. The cutting guides include a base portion having a contact surface shaped to substantially match at least a portion of a cavity of the glenoid. The base portion has a guide hole extending therethrough in which the guide hole has an axis coaxial with an axis o...