US Patent Issued to Stryker on Aug. 11 for "Patient specific bone preparation for consistent effective fixation feature engagement" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,560, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient specific bone preparation for consistent effective fixation feature engagement" was invented by Michael C. Ferko (Warwick, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optimized press-fit between a resected bone and an articular implant may, for instance, reduce undesirable qualities, including excess micromotion, stress transmission, and/or strain. By taking into account heterogeneous bone properties, the parameters of a bone resection can be determined as to optimize the press-fit between a resected bone and an articular implant. An optimized press-fit is ob...