US Patent Issued to Treace Medical Concepts on July 15 for "Fulcrum for tarsal-metatarsal joint procedure" (Tennessee, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,347, issued on July 15, was assigned to Treace Medical Concepts Inc. (Ponte Vedra, Fla.).

"Fulcrum for tarsal-metatarsal joint procedure" was invented by Carlos Eduardo Gil (Memphis, Tenn.) and Joe William Ferguson (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 a fulcrum. In some examples, the fulcrum includes multiple members that are joined together at one end and spaced apart from each other at an opposite end. The fulcrum members can be manipulated to adjust the distance separating the fulcrum members from each other and, correspondingl...