US Patent Issued to Zimmer on Aug. 11 for "Impaction cradle" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,570, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Zimmer Inc. (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Impaction cradle" was invented by Tim Yoko (Granger, Ind.), Amanda Szalkowski (Winona Lake, Ind.) and Jeffery A. VanDiepenbos (New Paris, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impaction cradle (50) for supporting a femoral (10) or tibial (70) implant on a planar support surface such as a tabletop. The impaction cradle can orient the femoral or tibial implant on the impaction cradle such that an attachment feature of the implant for an intramedullary stem or metaphyseal sleeve is aligned with a vertical plane or parallel to the true vertical axis. In this position, ...