US 11,717,418 B2
Medical implants and other articles of manufacture based on trabecular bone lattices
Alan Dang, San Francisco, CA (US); Alexis Dang, San Francisco, CA (US); Wenhan Chang, San Francisco, CA (US); and Alfred Li, Aurora, CO (US)
Assigned to The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US); and Alfred Li, Aurora, CO (US)
Appl. No. 17/40,453
Filed by The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US); and Alfred Li, Aurora, CO (US)
PCT Filed Mar. 26, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/024153
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 22, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/191149, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 3, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/648,267, filed on Mar. 26, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0022882 A1, Jan. 28, 2021
Int. Cl. A61F 2/44 (2006.01); A61F 2/30 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/447 (2013.01) [A61F 2/3094 (2013.01); A61F 2002/3092 (2013.01); A61F 2002/3093 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30593 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30985 (2013.01); A61F 2002/4495 (2013.01); A61F 2310/00023 (2013.01); A61F 2310/00029 (2013.01); A61F 2310/00077 (2013.01); A61F 2310/00161 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An article of manufacture comprising a trabecular bone-inspired lattice, the trabecular bone-inspired lattice comprising
a plurality of plates, wherein each plate comprises a ribbon structure comprising a length, width and thickness and having a predominant axis, wherein over 40% of the plates are anisotropically arranged such that the predominant axis of each plate is in alignment with a predominant axis of mechanical strength of the trabecular bone-inspired lattice; and
a plurality of rods, wherein each rod comprises an elongated structure and wherein the plurality of rods interconnects the plates with one another.