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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2012
Applicants:
Tom Vanasse, Warsaw, IN (US);
Gautam Gupta, Warsaw, IN (US);
Jason Meridew, Warsaw, IN (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Biomet Manufacturing, LLC, Warsaw, IN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 19/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of forming an implant having a porous region replicated from scanned bone, the method comprising imaging bone with a high resolution digital scanner to generate a three-dimensional design model of the bone; removing a three-dimensional section from the design model; fabricating a porous region on a digital representation of the implant by replacing a solid portion of the digital implant with the section removed from the digital representation; and using an additive manufacturing technique to create a physical implant including the fabricated porous region.