Patent ID: 8343227

Claim:
A prosthetic knee joint assembly for a knee joint of a patient with a tibia, and a femur, the prosthetic knee joint assembly comprising: a unitary, single body femoral component that is adapted to engage the femur, the femoral component including an articulating surface; a ligament link; at least one bearing that supports articulation of the articulating surface of the femoral component thereon; a tibial tray that is adapted to engage the tibia and that supports the at least one bearing; a ligament link coupling component that is included directly on the femoral component, the ligament link coupling component operable to couple to the ligament link to couple the ligament link to the femoral component; and a first opening and a second opening included anteriorly on the tibial tray, the ligament link extending from the femoral component, bypassing the at least one bearing, and received in one of the first opening and the second opening to bypass the tibial tray to operably couple to the tibia, the first and second openings being disposed on opposite sides of a medial plane of the tibial tray, wherein the femoral component includes a medial condyle portion and a lateral condyle portion joined by a patellar track portion, an intercondylar opening being defined between the medial and lateral condyle portions, the femoral component also including a wall that extends superiorly from one of the medial condyle portion and lateral condyle portion, the ligament link coupling component extending from the wall into the intercondylar opening.