ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,767, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Paragon 28 Inc. (Englewood, Colo.).
"Systems and methods for controlled facet repositioning in the calcaneus" was invented by Andrew Julian Goldberg (Radlett, Great Britain), Richard Matthew Obert (Poway, Calif.) and Mathew Richard Anderle (Greenwood Village, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical method surgical method includes collecting a set of patient data, identifying at least one significant point from the set of patient data, creating a surgical guide based on the at least one significant point and the patient data, and coupling the surgical guide with a calcaneum of a patient. T...