ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,134, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SMITH & NEPHEW INC. (Memphis, Tenn.), SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG (Zug, Switzerland) and SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Periprosthetic bone plate systems" was invented by Jordan Rakes (Cordova, Tenn.), Adam Zysk (Germantown, Tenn.), Nicholas S. Ritchey (Collierville, Tenn.), Charles R. Bennett (Memphis, Tenn.), Kohsuke Watanabe (Memphis, Tenn.), Paul Tornetta (Brookline, Mass.), William Ricci (New York), Reza Firoozabadi (Mercer Island, Wash.), John Tracy Watson (Paradise Valley, Ariz.), Samir Mehta (Haddonfield, N.J.), Brian McGrory (Falmouth, Maine) and George Babikian (Freeport, Maine).
According to the abstract* ...