US Patent Issued to Joint Development on Nov. 3 for "Orthopedic implants having a subsurface level ceramic layer applied via bombardment" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,337, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Joint Development Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Orthopedic implants having a subsurface level ceramic layer applied via bombardment" was invented by Eric M. Dacus (Salt Lake City), Erin E. Hofmann (Park City, Utah) and Dermott J. McHugh (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orthopedic implant having a subsurface level ceramic layer generally includes a base material, an intermix layer molecularly integrated with the base material that includes a mixture of the base material and a plurality of subsurface level ceramic-based molecules implanted into the base material, and an integrated cerami...