ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,856, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to MatOrtho Ltd. (Surrey, Great Britain).
"Ceramic femoral resurfacing head prosthesis" was invented by Simon Collins (Tetbury, Great Britain), Andrew Clive Taylor (Chichester, Great Britain), Michael Antony Tuke (Surrey, Great Britain) and Carolina Avila Carrasco (Surrey, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ceramic femoral resurfacing head prosthesis (110) comprises a ceramic convex outer contact surface (112) engagable with an acetabulum of a patient or an acetabular cup prosthesis and a concave inner fixation surface (114) having an inner-land portion (128), the ceramic convex outer ...