ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,495, issued on March 3, was assigned to Zimmer Inc. (Warsaw, Ind.).
"Stemmed modular implant system" was invented by Ravikumar Varadarajan (Warsaw, Ind.) and Caitlyn Sue Schmeiser (Cary, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stemmed implant system can include a stem component and an accessory component. The stemmed component can include a first portion adapted to be anchored within a medullary canal of a bone and a second portion including a mounting boss defining an inner coupling surface. The accessory component can define an outer coupling surface adapted to engage the inner coupling surface of the mounting boss of the stem compon...