US Patent Issued to Extremity Medical on Sept. 16 for "Orthopedic plate with locking compression slot" (New Jersey, California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,804, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Extremity Medical LLC (Parsippany, N.J.).

"Orthopedic plate with locking compression slot" was invented by Michael Latour (Ramsey, N.J.), Raymond Penzimer (Morristown, N.J.), Brian Straus (Dallas) and Timothy P. Charlton (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Assemblies and methods for fixation of bone or bone fragments using an orthopedic plate having a slot that causes the bone or bone fragments to compress as a screw is inserted into the slot and rotated therein. By anchoring the orthopedic plate to a first bone or bone fragment and rotating the screw into the second bone or bone frag...