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Metric Medical Devices has been working hard to get a variety of videos online to demonstrate how the Super Staple™ and Super Scaffold™ are used for various procedures as well as revealing what is included in a sterile kit so you can train up on how the product is used without face to face interaction…

Metric announces the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 10,448,979, entitled “SHAPE CHANGING BONE IMPLANT AND METHOD OF USE FOR ENHANCING HEALING”.  This patent provides broad coverage for nitinol internal fixation implants, instrument systems and methods where the implant is released in bone to pull together and compress the bone healing interface to enhance healing.

Metric announces the Grant of European Patent EP2736421 B1 entitled “Sterile Package Comprising a Bone Staple Device and Method of Making the Same” covering its SuperStaple™ product line and sterile packaging.  The Granting of this patent builds on Metric’s issued patents in the United States and expands intellectual property coverage to specified countries in the…

This September, Dr. William Casey Fox, Ph.D., P.E. was honored and inducted into the Mechanical Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni at The University of Texas at Austin. Inducted with Dr. Fox were:   Terry J. Hendricks , P.E. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Emily J. Nelson , NASA Deputy Chief Flight Director; William (Bill) F. Schneider…

We’re proud to enter the digital era, as of September 4th, Metric Medical Devices has become active on our LinkedIn page. Check it out if you haven’t already!

Metric announces the licensing of the Fox patents, “Method and Apparatus for a Staple” US 8,721,646 B2 and US 9,451,955 B2 covering Stepped Nitinol Bone Fixation Staples.

A collaborative technology publication entitled “A Novel Bone Conducting Scaffold and Interdigital Fusion Device”, has just been released by its co-authors at Metric and Memry Corp. Bethel, CT. In this article the technology and use for Metric’s SuperScaffold™ interdigital fusion implant (U.S. 9,907,585 B2) are presented. One of our implant vendors, Memry Corporation, wrote the…

May 18, 2018 The Distinguished Engineering Graduate Award Established in 1957, the Distinguished Engineering Graduate Award represents the highest honor that the Cockrell School of Engineering bestows on its alumni. Including this year’s honorees, 281 alumni of 75,000 engineering graduates from the University of Texas at Austin have been selected for this award since its…

United States Patent and Trademark Office has released Patent #9,907,585 for the SuperScaffold™

On April 29, 2017 The United States Patent and Trademark Office issued the Super Staple™ patent U.S. 9,743,926.