ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,849, issued on May 13.
"Mandibular reconstruction systems and methods" was invented by Jason D. Toranto (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, one aspect disclosed features a method comprising: providing a bone section; attaching a cutting guide to the bone section; cutting the bone section into multiple bone graft sections using the cutting guide; arranging the multiple bone graft sections in a neo-mandible position; attaching a temporary fixation plate to the multiple bone graft sections after arranging the multiple bone graft sections in the neo-mandible position; removing the cutting guide from the multiple bone gr...