US Patent Issued to Shoulder Innovations on Feb. 10 for "Reusable, customizable shoulder replacement instrumentation" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,083, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Shoulder Innovations Inc. (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"Reusable, customizable shoulder replacement instrumentation" was invented by Corey Wilson (Holland, Mich.) and Robert J. Ball (West Olive, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a customized reusable guide for shoulder replacements. In an example embodiment, a method comprises providing an alignment compass base, wherein the alignment compass base is configured to enable rotational orientation of a radial offset insert and a K-wire guide tube with respect to a guide base, inserting the guide base component into the alignmen...