US Patent Issued to Treace Medical Concepts on July 8 for "Bone positioning and cutting system and method" (Iowa, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,941, issued on July 8, was assigned to Treace Medical Concepts Inc. (Ponte Vedra, Fla.).

"Bone positioning and cutting system and method" was invented by Paul Dayton (Ankeny, Iowa) and F. Barry Bays (Collierville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone positioning device can include a fixation pin for attachment to a first bone and a fixation pin for attachment to a second bone. A first block having an aperture can be included for slidably receiving a fixation pin, and a second block having an aperture can be included for slidably receiving a fixation pin. A multi-axis joint can connect the first block and the second block, where...