ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,711, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to OsteoMed LLC (Addison, Texas).
"Four corner fusion device" was invented by Jaiyoung Ryu (Morgantown, W.va.), Terry Whipple (Richmond, Va.) and Benjamin Carl Casey (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and apparatus for bone fusion. Bone fusion can be performed using an elongated plate having a top face and a bottom face and defining a plurality of screw apertures therethrough. The elongated plate has a longitudinal dimension between a first and second ends and a lateral dimension between first and second sides. The screw apertures are defined in a generally straight line along ...