US Patent Issued to HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS on Oct. 20 for "Metaphyseal referencing technique and instrument" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,888, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP. (Mahwah, N.J.).

"Metaphyseal referencing technique and instrument" was invented by Alexander Paul Wolfe (Fort Wayne, Ind.), David R. Stump (Columbia City, Ind.), Kevin P. Knox (Fort Wayne, Ind.), Anne Marie Schlamb (Leesburg, Ind.), George S. Athwal (London, Canada) and R. Sean Churchill (Mequon, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Guides for guiding a tool into a medullary canal of a bone. The guides can include a base and a guide feature. The base can include a first surface configured to contact the bone and a second surface opposite the first surface. The guide fea...