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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2013
Applicant:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Inventors:
Alexander H. Slocum, Jr., Huntington, WV (US);
Adam T. Paxson, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jonathan David Smith, Cambridge, MA (US);
Daniel H. Goodman, Boston, MA (US);
Kripa K. Varanasi, Lexington, MA (US);
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/30767 (2013.01); A61F 2/30771 (2013.01); A61F 2002/3084 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30144 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30673 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30838 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides, among other things, prosthetic joint components having textured surface(s) for improving lubrication and increasing the useful life of the prosthetic joint components. The textured surface includes solid features configured to stably contain a biological fluid or a synthetic biological fluid therebetween or therewithin for a non-zero residence time.