Mollie Waters

Title: Mollie Waters and Tissue-Sparing Shoulder Arthroplasty

Introduction

Mollie Waters is an inventor associated with Boston, Massachusetts, and DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. Her patent work focuses on surgical tools and methods for shoulder arthroplasty.

Latest Patents

Waters is named on 1 patent: “Humeral Resection Guides, and Related Methods, for Use in Tissue-Sparing Shoulder Arthroplasties.” The invention concerns devices and methods for making a humeral cut to prepare a surgical site for a prosthesis. In some embodiments, the resection guide has multiple arms that can be delivered separately and coupled together at the surgical site. This arrangement can reduce tissue trauma by allowing smaller components to be introduced during delivery. The guide also includes features intended to fit the humeral head, establish a desired resection plane, and help protect surrounding tissue from cutting tools.

Career Highlights

The available information connects Waters’s patent activity with DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. Her listed invention addresses the design of surgical guides for tissue-sparing shoulder procedures.

Collaborations

Robert Ciocca and Stephen J. Orphanos are identified as Waters’s coworkers. The provided information does not specify their roles in the patent or the invention.

Conclusion

Mollie Waters’s listed patent describes a modular humeral resection guide designed to support precise bone cutting while limiting disruption to surrounding shoulder tissue.