US Patent Issued to IN2BONES on Sept. 8 for "Implantable component with improved anchoring means for ankle prosthesis and ankle prosthesis comprising such a component" (Belgian, Swedish, Luxembourger, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,012, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to IN2BONES (Ecully, France).

"Implantable component with improved anchoring means for ankle prosthesis and ankle prosthesis comprising such a component" was invented by Thibaut Jean Pierre Henry Leemrijse (Brussels), Pit Putzeys (Bridel, Luxembourg), Laurent Francois Rene Paul (Mellery, Belgium), Per-Henrik Agren (Stockholm) and Jean-Luc Pierre Marie Besse (Chaponnay, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable ankle-prosthesis component (1), comprising a main body (2) with a bone contact face (3) intended to come into contact with an area of a bone body of an ankle and extending along a...