US Patent Issued to Treace Medical Concepts on July 22 for "Metatarsophalangeal joint preparation and metatarsal realignment for fusion" (Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Colorado, Iowa, Missouri, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,522, issued on July 22, was assigned to Treace Medical Concepts Inc. (Ponte Vedra, Fla.).

"Metatarsophalangeal joint preparation and metatarsal realignment for fusion" was invented by William T. DeCarbo (Mars, Pa.), Paul Dayton (Ankeny, Iowa), W. Bret Smith (Lexington, S.C.), Robert D. Santrock (Morgantown, W.va.), Daniel J. Hatch (Greeley, Colo.) and Jody McAleer (Jefferson City, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing a metatarsophalangeal joint for fusion may involve surgically accessing the metatarsophalangeal joint and separating the metatarsal from the opposed proximal phalanx at the joint. The technique may in...