US Patent Issued to Wake Forest University Health Sciences on Nov. 18 for "Systems for treating and/or preventing fractures and related devices and methods" (North Carolina, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,972, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Systems for treating and/or preventing fractures and related devices and methods" was invented by Philip Jayson Brown (Winston Salem, N.C.) and Brandon Lee Roller (Eugene, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for treating and/or preventing fractures include at least one needle sized and configured to be placed into target bone and at least one implantable pin configured to be releasably held in a first needle of the at least one needle. The systems also include at least one delivery device of injectable material configured to...