US Patent Issued to Think Surgical, Extramet Products on Oct. 20 for "Surgical article formed from fine grained tungsten carbide in nickel matrix" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,228, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Think Surgical Inc. (Fremont, Calif.) and Extramet Products LLC (Latrobe, Pa.).

"Surgical article formed from fine grained tungsten carbide in nickel matrix" was invented by Timothy Pack (Fremont, Calif.), Christopher Douglas (Latrobe, Pa.), Joel Zuhars (Fremont, Calif.) and Micah Forstein (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biocompatible surgical article is provided for cutting biological tissue or implantation in contact therewith. The surgical article has a composition of tungsten carbide-nickel with a percentage of additional metal carbides present. A typical composition in to...