US Patent Issued to Treace Medical Concepts on Nov. 25 for "Devices and techniques for treating lesser metatarsals of the foot" (Florida, West Virginia, Colorado, Iowa, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,381, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Treace Medical Concepts Inc (Ponte Vedra, Fla.).

"Devices and techniques for treating lesser metatarsals of the foot" was invented by Adriaan Kuyler (Ponte Vedra, Fla.), Sean F. Scanlan (Jacksonville, Fla.), Paul Dayton (Ankeny, Iowa), William T. DeCarbo (Pittsburgh), Mark Erik Easley (Durham, N.C.), Daniel J. Hatch (Greeley, Colo.), Jody McAleer (Jefferson City, Mo.), Robert D. Santrock (Morgantown, W.va.) and W. Bret Smith (Durango, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variety of surgical procedures may be performed on the bones of the foot, such as on one or more lesser metatarsals of the ...