US Patent Issued to Smith & Nephew on Sept. 15 for "Porous implant structures" (Utah, California, Tennessee, Mississippi Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,037, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Smith & Nephew Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Porous implant structures" was invented by Jeffrey Sharp (Salt Lake City), Shilesh Jani (Memphis, Tenn.), Laura Gilmour (Alameda, Calif.) and Ryan Landon (Southaven, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Porous biocompatible structures suitable for use as medical implants and methods for fabricating such structures are disclosed. The disclosed structures may be fabricated using rapid manufacturing techniques. The disclosed porous structures each have a plurality of struts and nodes where no more than two struts intersect one another to form a node. Furthe...