US Patent Issued to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY on April 15 for "Surgical distractor and methods of manufacture and use" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,431, issued on April 15, was assigned to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Surgical distractor and methods of manufacture and use" was invented by Joseph Ryan Woodard (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical instruments, such as distractors and methods of manufacture are provided for maintaining a displacement of bone determined to be necessary by a surgeon. For instance, a surgical distractor may include a first holder section, a second holder section, a first displacement element, a second displacement element, a positioning element, and a rotatable component having an opening. The second holder sectio...