US Patent Issued to Treace Medical Concepts on Sept. 16 for "Devices and techniques for performing an osteotomy procedure on a first metatarsal to correct a bone misalignment" (Florida, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,779, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Treace Medical Concepts Inc. (Ponte Vedra, Fla.).

"Devices and techniques for performing an osteotomy procedure on a first metatarsal to correct a bone misalignment" was invented by Tyler Hissong (Jacksonville, Fla.), Joe W. Ferguson (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.) and Lowell Weil Jr. (Lake Forest, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and techniques for adjusting an alignment for a first metatarsal may include making a plurality of cuts along the length of the first metatarsal. In different applications of the technique, a plurality of transverse cuts may or may not be made intersecting the ...