US Patent Issued to VEP Medical on June 30 for "Safety hip femoral bone preparation instruments for the femur in minimally invasive total hip arthroplasty" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,373, issued on June 30, was assigned to VEP Medical LLC (Henrico, Va.).

"Safety hip femoral bone preparation instruments for the femur in minimally invasive total hip arthroplasty" was invented by James P. Perkins (Henrico, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety broach for use in arthroplasty for hip joints, and a system including the same. The system may further include a segmented or otherwise flexible reamer and an implant. The safety broach includes a hollow interior passage that serves to guide the reamer when the safety broach is in place in the bone. The system may include any number of sizes of safety broaches, segmented...