US Patent Issued to Treace Medical Concepts on April 15 for "Bone positioning and preparing guide systems and methods" (Tennessee, Colorado, Iowa, Florida, South Carolina, West Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,481, issued on April 15, was assigned to Treace Medical Concepts Inc. (Ponte Vedra, Fla.).

"Bone positioning and preparing guide systems and methods" was invented by Robert D. Santrock (Morgantown, W.va.), Paul Dayton (Ankeny, Iowa), Daniel J. Hatch (Greeley, Colo.), W. Bret Smith (Lexington, S.C.), F. Barry Bays (Collierville, Tenn.), Carlos Eduardo Gil (Memphis, Tenn.), Sean F. Scanlan (Jacksonville, Fla.), Joe W. Ferguson (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.) and John T. Treace (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for temporarily fixing an orientation of a bone or bones. Methods of correcting a bunion deformity. Bone...