US Patent Issued to Just Medical Devices (Tianjin) on March 17 for "Oxide layer-containing zirconium-niobium alloy ankle joint prosthetic system and manufacturing method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,936, issued on March 17, was assigned to Just Medical Devices (Tianjin) Co. Ltd. (Tianjin, China).

"Oxide layer-containing zirconium-niobium alloy ankle joint prosthetic system and manufacturing method" was invented by Xiaojing Zhu (Tianjin, China), Jieru Huang (Tianjin, China), Ping Ye (Tianjin, China), Jing Zhao (Tianjin, China) and Lu Liu (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses an ankle prosthesis containing zirconium-niobium alloy on oxidation layer and a preparation method thereof, the preparation method comprises: using zirconium-niobium alloy powder as a raw material, conducting a 3D pr...