US Patent Issued to Zimmer on Oct. 6 for "Methods and apparatuses for trialing a humeral head" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,831, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Zimmer Inc. (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Methods and apparatuses for trialing a humeral head" was invented by Donald W. Dye Jr. (Warsaw, Ind.) and Peter Darrigan (Fort Wayne, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems and methods such as a trial apparatus for selecting a position of a prosthetic head component on a humerus are disclosed. The trial apparatus can optionally include a body (36) and a thimble (38). The body can have a plurality of indicia (46) and can form a portion of a joint (37). The thimble can be couplable to the body via the joint. The thimble can be rotatable relative to the...