US Patent Issued to Treace Medical Concepts on April 22 for "Tarsal-metatarsal joint procedure utilizing compressor-distractor and instrument providing sliding surface" (Florida, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,794, issued on April 22, was assigned to Treace Medical Concepts Inc. (Ponte Vedra, Fla.).

"Tarsal-metatarsal joint procedure utilizing compressor-distractor and instrument providing sliding surface" was invented by John T. Treace (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), Joe W. Ferguson (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), Carlos Eduardo Gil (Memphis, Tenn.) and Sean F. Scanlan (Jacksonville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical technique can involve inserting an instrument defining a sliding surface between a metatarsal and a laterally-adjacent metatarsal. The technique can include moving the metatarsal across the sliding surface of the instrument...