ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,153, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to HEAPSI LLC (Boulder, Colo.).

"Orthopedic plate system" was invented by Omer Mei-Dan (Boulder, Colo.), Jason W. Stoneback (Fort Lupton, Colo.), Jacob Segil (Boulder, Colo.) and Benjamin Carnicelli (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to an orthopedic fixation system that includes first and second plates each defining a clamp positioned at an end of the plate and comprising a first hole, a body portion extending from the clamp and comprising one or more holes, and one or more raised features positioned along the body portion. The clamp of the first plate is configured to ...