Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

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I may need this medical item due to a family history of arthritis but I don't know how big this specialized knee replacement field is.

US Patent# 9,877,790 Date of Jan 30, 2018 from ConforMIS, Inc.
Tibial implant and systems with variable slope


Currently, joint repair systems often employ metal and/or polymeric materials including, for example, prostheses which are anchored into the underlying bone (e.g., a femur in the case of a knee prosthesis). See, e.g., U.S. Pat. No. 6,203,576 to Afriat et al. issued Mar. 20, 2001 and U.S. Pat. No. 6,322,588 to Ogle, et al. issued Nov. 27, 2001, and references cited therein. A wide-variety of metals is useful in the practice of the embodiments described herein, and can be selected based on any criteria. For example, material selection can be based on resiliency to impart a desired degree of rigidity. Non-limiting examples of suitable metals include silver, gold, platinum, palladium, iridium, copper, tin, lead, antimony, bismuth, zinc, titanium, cobalt, stainless steel, nickel, iron alloys, cobalt alloys, such as Elgiloy.RTM., a cobalt-chromium-nickel alloy, and MP35N, a nickel-cobalt-chromiummolybdenum alloy, and Nitinol T.TM., a nickel-titanium alloy, aluminum, manganese, iron, tantalum, crystal free metals, such as Liquidmetal.RTM. alloys (available from LiquidMetal Technologies, www.liquidmetal.com), other metals that can slowly form polyvalent metal ions, for example to inhibit calcification of implanted substrates in contact with a patient's bodily fluids or tissues, and combinations thereof