US Patent Issued to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY on May 27 for "Minimally invasive surgery laser guide" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,799, issued on May 27, was assigned to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Minimally invasive surgery laser guide" was invented by Jesse G. Moore (Germantown, Tenn.) and John White (Arlington, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of a surgical instrument are disclosed. The surgical instrument includes a handle, a working element extending from the handle configured to be positioned internal of a target site while the handle is external to the target site, and a laser guide configured to generate at least one emitted marker. The emitted marker corresponds to movement of the working element internal of...