US Patent Issued to Treace Medical Concepts on April 8 for "Bone cutting guide systems and methods" (Iowa, West Virginia, Tennessee, Colorado, Florida, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,397, issued on April 8, was assigned to Treace Medical Concepts Inc. (Ponte Vedra, Fla.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone cutting guide may include a support that contains a shaft movable relative to the support. The shaft may carry a guide...