US Patent Issued to TORNIER on Sept. 22 for "Shoulder patient specific instrument" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,873, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TORNIER SAS (France).

"Shoulder patient specific instrument" was invented by Pierric Deransart (Saint Martin d'uriage, France), Emmanuel Francois Marie Lizee (Saint Ismier, France), Delphine Claire Michelle Henry (Saint Ismier, France), Jean Chaoui (Locmaria-Plouzane, France), Gilles Walch (Lyons, France) and Pascal Boileau (Nice, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for guiding a glenoid prosthesis is disclosed. The system includes a glenoid guide that includes: a guide feature; at least three arms having a first end coupled with the guide feature and a second end disposed away fro...