US Patent Issued to Medline Industries on Oct. 7 for "Lisfranc reconstruction device, kit, and method" (Illinois, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,654, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Medline Industries LP (Northfield, Ill.).

"Lisfranc reconstruction device, kit, and method" was invented by Wesley Reed (Libertyville, Ill.), Ryan Niver (Glenview, Ill.), Samuel Nader (Arlington Heights, Ill.), Scott Goldstein (Deerfield, Ill.) and Dinesh Koka (Winter Park, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Lisfranc reconstruction device includes a pair of operator grips mechanically linked to a first arm that includes a barrel and a second arm that includes a jaw whereby motion of the grips is mechanically transformed into relative translation of the barrel and the jaw for compression of a p...