US Patent Issued to INIXIO on Sept. 22 for "Prostheses" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,867, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to INIXIO Ltd. (Sheffield, Great Britain).

"Prostheses" was invented by Rod Mathias (Sheffield, Great Britain) and Ivan Green (Sheffield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of ceramic acetabular cup prostheses (100) and ceramic femoral head prostheses (200) suitable for use therewith wherein the bearing diameter centre point of the cup is laterally offset from the outer diameter centre point of the cup along the longitudinal axis of the cup and wherein, for each cup in the set starting from the smallest cup in the set, the outer diameter increases in 2 mm increments and the inner...