US Patent Issued to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY on Dec. 9 for "Modular guide system for surgical procedures" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,996, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Modular guide system for surgical procedures" was invented by David G. Reynolds (Memphis, Tenn.), Julia C. Alspaugh (Memphis, Tenn.) and Paul M. Stemniski (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device has a guide locator and a guide element. The guide locator has a mount body having a conformal surface that is shaped to be complementary to a natural anatomical surface of a patient bone and defining a mount receptacle. The mount body defines a guide receptacle. The guide element includes a guide body having a shape configured to f...