US Patent Issued to Treace Medical Concepts on Aug. 26 for "Devices and techniques for treating metatarsus adductus" (Pennsylvania, Missouri, West Virginia, Colorado, Iowa, Florida, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,770, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Treace Medical Concepts Inc. (Ponte Vedra, Fla.).

"Devices and techniques for treating metatarsus adductus" was invented by Jody McAleer (Jefferson City, Mo.), William DeCarbo (Mars, Pa.), Daniel Hatch (Greeley, Colo.), Paul Dayton (Ankeny, Iowa), Robert Santrock (Morgantown, W.va.), W. Bret Smith (Lexington, S.C.), Adriaan Kuyler (Ponte Vedra, Fla.) and Sean Scanlan (Jacksonville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metatarsus adductus technique may involve cutting an end of one or both of a second metatarsal and an intermediate cuneiform to create a wedge-shaped opening between the end of t...