US Patent Issued to Warsaw Orthopedic on April 14 for "Hydratable and flowable implantable compositions and methods of making and using them" (California, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,696, issued on April 14, was assigned to Warsaw Orthopedic Inc. (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Hydratable and flowable implantable compositions and methods of making and using them" was invented by Ian Dunkley (Irvine, Calif.) and Gretchen Selders (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implantable bone compositions are provided. The implantable compositions comprise hydratable bone putties. The hydratable bone putties comprise porous ceramic granules having an average diameter from about 50 micro metre to 800 micro metre and the composition has a texture value above about 1000. The porous ceramic granules comprise hydroxyapatite and beta-...