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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:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2013
Applicant:
The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning / Mcgill University, Montreal, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/28 (2006.01); A61F 2/30 (2006.01); A61B 17/15 (2006.01); A61F 2/42 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/30942 (2013.01); A61B 17/15 (2013.01); A61F 2/28 (2013.01); A61F 2/4261 (2013.01); A61B 6/505 (2013.01); A61B 2034/102 (2016.02); A61F 2002/2871 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30069 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30945 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30948 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30957 (2013.01); A61F 2002/4289 (2013.01); A61F 2240/004 (2013.01); A61F 2310/00011 (2013.01); A61F 2310/00179 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49 (2015.01);
Abstract
A method for making an orthopaedic implant, the method comprising: characterizing at least a portion of a bone corresponding to the bone to be replaced, said corresponding bone being on the contralateral side of the patient; providing a model of the orthopaedic implant based on a mirror image of the contralateral bone; and forming the orthopaedic implant based on the model.