US Patent Issued to Treace Medical Concepts on March 18 for "Bi-planar instrument for bone cutting and joint realignment procedure" (Florida, West Virginia, Colorado, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,091, issued on March 18, was assigned to Treace Medical Concepts Inc. (Ponte Vedra, Fla.).

"Bi-planar instrument for bone cutting and joint realignment procedure" was invented by Jason May (St. John's, Fla.), Robert D. Santrock (Morgantown, W.va.), Sean F. Scanlan (Jacksonville, Fla.), John T. Treace (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), Joe W. Ferguson (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), Jody McAleer (Jefferson City, Mo.) and Daniel J. Hatch (Greeley, Colo.).

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 that defines a spacer body connected to a fulcrum. The spacer body...