US Patent Issued to WARSAW ORTHOPEDIC on June 23 for "In-situ additive manufactured motion-sparing implants" (Tennessee, Mississippi Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,230, issued on June 23, was assigned to WARSAW ORTHOPEDIC Inc. (Warsaw, Ind.).

"In-situ additive manufactured motion-sparing implants" was invented by Jonathan M. Dewey (Memphis, Tenn.), Michael L. Sutton (Coldwater, Miss.) and Jerald L. Redmond (Germantown, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive-manufacturing system for printing spinal implants in-situ, within a patient, is disclosed. The system may include a robotic subsystem having scanning and imaging equipment and an armature including at least one dispensing nozzle and a controller apparatus having a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium. The control...