US Patent Issued to HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS on Sept. 9 for "Method for manufacturing a patient-specific prosthesis for a fractured long bone" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,038, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP. (Mahwah, N.J.).

"Method for manufacturing a patient-specific prosthesis for a fractured long bone" was invented by Vincent Coulange (Lyons, France), Celine Courtade-Jouanicq (Montpellier, France), Shawn M. Gargac (Fort Wayne, Ind.), Marine Godelu (Grenoble, France) and Guillaume Rognin (Saint Martin d'Heres, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of manufacturing a prosthesis for a fractured long bone of a patient, the method including the steps of: A) providing data representative of the fractured long bone in a patient; B) based on said data, des...