US Patent Issued to Poriferous on June 16 for "Implant" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,677, issued on June 16, was assigned to Poriferous LLC (Newnan, Ga.).

"Implant" was invented by Aaron Noble (Newnan, Ga.) and Spencer Jones (Newnan, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implant may include a curved implant body and a flange extending from the implant body, the flange being thinner than the implant body, the implant body and the flange having a first exterior surface and a second exterior surface opposite the first surface in which the implant body and the flange formed by at least partially fused particles. The particles at the first surface define a first average pore size and the particles at the second surface de...