ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,007, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City).
"Bone cap" was invented by Dustin L Williams (Salt Lake City), Richard Tyler Epperson (Salt Lake City), Brad M. Isaacson (Salt Lake City), Brooke Kawaguchi (Salt Lake City) and Mary Grace Canapi (Salt Lake City).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone cap (100) for preventing leakage of medullary canal components in a residual limb (102) that can lead to pathologies such as heterotopic ossification reducing heterotopic ossification and a method for using the same are provided. The bone cap (100) includes a proximal base (114) and an insertio...