US Patent Issued to ORTHOALIGNMENT on Jan. 27 for "Bone implant and method for treating long bone angular deformities" (Tennessee, Florida, Mississippi Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,168, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ORTHOALIGNMENT LLC (Palm City, Fla.).

"Bone implant and method for treating long bone angular deformities" was invented by Dror Paley (West Palm Beach, Fla.), M. Chad Hollis (Collierville, Tenn.) and Daniel Sayger (Southaven, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bone plate and instrument systems include interconnections and locking mechanisms to fix the bone plates to the instruments, and guide features that aim k-wires, drills, and/or fasteners to pass through holes in the bone plates when the bone plates are fixed to the instruments. The locking mechanisms include elongated flexible elements ...