US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on July 1 for "Distal tibial plating system" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,051, issued on July 1, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Distal tibial plating system" was invented by David Laird Jr. (Brandamore, Pa.), Alex Bada (Phoenixville, Pa.) and Andrew Davison (Downingtown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bone plates for engaging bone members are described herein. The bone plates can receive one or more screws to secure the bone plates to an underlying bone member. The one or more screws can be inserted into bone plate holes that can be considered locking or non-locking. The bone plates described herein can have particular combinations of locking and/or non-locking holes. Additional bo...