US Patent Issued to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 12 for "Minimally invasive surgical tools and systems" (Tennessee, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,286, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Minimally invasive surgical tools and systems" was invented by Joseph Ryan Woodard (Memphis, Tenn.), Erin Muller (Fort Wayne, Ind.), Terrance W. Strohkirch (Memphis, Tenn.) and Gary W. Lowery (Eads, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical tool includes a body defining an opening sized and configured to receive a first bone portion therein, a displacement tip coupled to a first end of the body, the displacement tip sized and configured for insertion into a medullary canal of a second bone portion, and a deployable retention block configur...