US Patent Issued on June 17 for "Medical device, surgical kit and a method for performing osteotomy" (Iranian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,428, issued on June 17.

"Medical device, surgical kit and a method for performing osteotomy" was invented by Mohammad Javad Shariati (Mashad, Iran), Amir Reza Kachooei (Philadelphia) and Ahmadreza Afshar (Urmia, Iran).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical kit and a method for performing osteotomy is disclosed. The surgical kit comprises at least two lateral plates and a central plate. The two lateral plates are scaled and fixed over a surgical bone adjacent to each other with an exact distance measured by the scaled lateral plates while the central plate is over two lateral plates to maintain the alignment. The distance is equal t...