US Patent Issued to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY on April 15 for "Bone fixation device" (Tennessee, Mississippi, Ohio, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,476, issued on April 15, was assigned to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Bone fixation device" was invented by Kian-Ming Wong (Lakeland, Tenn.), Freddie Lobianco (Gulfport, Miss.), Jeffrey Loveland (Sparta, Tenn.), Mario Cala (Coral Cables, Fla.) and Robert Brarens (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orthopedic device is disclosed that includes a threaded elongated shaft having a length, a regular polygon cross-section, and a longitudinal axis defined therethrough, wherein the elongated shaft having side surfaces extending over the length of the elongated shaft wherein each side surface corresponds to each ...