US Patent Issued to Treace Medical Concepts on April 8 for "Tarsal-metatarsal joint procedure utilizing fulcrum" (Tennessee, West Virginia, Colorado, Iowa, Florida, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,428, issued on April 8, was assigned to Treace Medical Concepts Inc. (Ponte Vedra, Fla.).

"Tarsal-metatarsal joint procedure utilizing fulcrum" was invented by F. Barry Bays (Collierville, Tenn.), Robert D. Santrock (Morgantown, W.va.), Paul Dayton (Ankeny, Iowa), 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.) and John T. Treace (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for correcting a bone deformity, such as a bunion, may be performed using an instrument. In some exa...