US Patent Issued to National University Corporation Ehime University on Dec. 23 for "Artificial knee joint, and bridge member, insert member and base plate used therein" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,280, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to National University Corporation Ehime University (Ehime, Japan).

"Artificial knee joint, and bridge member, insert member and base plate used therein" was invented by Kazunori Hino (Ehime, Japan), Hiromasa Miura (Ehime, Japan), Kunihiko Watamori (Ehime, Japan), Yoshitaka Shiraishi (Ehime, Japan) and Tomofumi Kinoshita (Ehime, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An artificial knee joint 1 includes: an insert member 2 embedded in a part of a joint surface of a medial condyle MC or lateral condyle LC of a tibia T; and a bridge member 3 disposed underneath the insert member 2, and having a length ...