US Patent Issued to Shoulder Innovations on March 3 for "Alignment guide for humeral or femoral stem replacement prostheses" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,498, issued on March 3, was assigned to Shoulder Innovations Inc. (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"Alignment guide for humeral or femoral stem replacement prostheses" was invented by Stephen B. Gunther (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for assisting alignment of humeral or femoral stems during replacement surgery. In some embodiments, a slotted disk is configured to position a prosthetic stem into a canal in the humerus when the stem is driven through the slot. In another illustrative embodiment, a similar slotted disk structure is configured to position a prosthetic stem into a canal in the femur. In so...