US Patent Issued to SMITH & NEPHEW, SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS, SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC on Sept. 2 for "Bone plate with length adjusting elongate hole, and corresponding methods of use" (Tennessee, New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,922, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SMITH & NEPHEW INC. (Memphis, Tenn.), SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG (Zug, Switzerland) and SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Bone plate with length adjusting elongate hole, and corresponding methods of use" was invented by Adam Zysk (Germantown, Tenn.), Kohsuke Watanabe (Memphis, Tenn.), William M. Ricci (New York), Samir Mehta (Haddonfield, N.J.) and Nicholas S. Ritchey (Collierville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone plate incorporating a length adjusting elongate hole formed in a shaft portion thereof, along with corresponding methods of use. In one embodiment, t...