US Patent Issued to Stryker on May 19 for "Surgical implant and methods of additive manufacturing" (Washington, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,178, issued on May 19, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Surgical implant and methods of additive manufacturing" was invented by Patrick Melton (Seattle) and Michael Prosser (Mount Pleasant, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a surgical implant includes simultaneously forming a first component and a second component of the surgical implant. Formation of the first and second components includes depositing a first quantity of material to a building platform and fusing the first quantity of material to form a first layer of the first and second components. The method of manufacturing also include...