US Patent Issued to RTG Scientific on July 15 for "Bone fixation devices, systems, methods, and instruments" (Utah, Minnesota, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,355, issued on July 15, was assigned to RTG Scientific LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Bone fixation devices, systems, methods, and instruments" was invented by Andrew Fauth (North Logan, Utah), Peter Mangone (Asheville, N.C.), Bruce Hoffman (Smithfield, Utah), Corey Johnson (Rochester, Minn.) and Richard Justin Hyer (Hyrum, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone disunion instrument system may include a first bone pin, a second bone pin, and a guide block. The guide block may include first and second bone pin holes to receive the first and second bone pins, and a window intermediate the first and second bone pin holes. The first bone pin m...