US Patent Issued to ONKOS SURGICAL on Dec. 30 for "Prosthesis surface treatment for soft tissue attachment thereto" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,133, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ONKOS SURGICAL INC. (Parsippany, N.J.).

"Prosthesis surface treatment for soft tissue attachment thereto" was invented by Gerhard E. Maale (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The improved endoprosthetic device surface treatment encourages soft tissue attachment thereto. A porous mesh surface treatment creates on an outer surface of the endoprosthetic device a three-dimensional surface structure similar to cancellous bone. Suture attachment features are provided at various locations around the treated surface structure to initially affix a vascularized soft tissue to the treated surface...