US Patent Issued to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic and, The Trustees of Dartmouth College on May 13 for "System and method for scaphoid fixation" (New Hampshire, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,632, issued on May 13, was assigned to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic and (Lebanon, N.H.) and The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.).

"System and method for scaphoid fixation" was invented by Matthew C. DeWolf (Lebanon, N.H.), Alexander Hartov (Enfield, N.H.) and Lance G. Warhold (Norwich, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for installation of a k-wire through a scaphoid or other fractured bone can include a guide block for accurate trajectory of a k-wire. A support frame for a guide block can be casted and/or secured into place, and a CT scan is obtained, so the fractured bone and the location of the windo...