ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,144, issued on March 18, was assigned to Trilliant Surgical LLC (Houston).
"Bone fixation system" was invented by Tyler Joseph Touchet (Cypress, Texas), Christopher Radzicki (Cypress, Texas) and Daniel Jobe (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes a bone fixation system comprising: a plate; and a tool; wherein: (a) the plate includes a hole to receive a bone anchor, (b) the hole includes a shelf, (c) the shelf includes a number of recesses; and (d) the hole is unthreaded and includes no resilient parts; wherein: (a) a distal end of the tool includes one or more lobes, (b) a number of lobes is no greater than th...