US Patent Issued to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 14 for "Methods and apparatus for guiding a k-wire" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,228, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Methods and apparatus for guiding a k-wire" was invented by Joseph Ryan Woodard (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed subject matter relates to a visual guide for aiding the surgeon in the insertion of a k-wire. The guide including a ring for receiving a guide wire, the guide wire extending from the ring parallel to the center axis of the ring; and, a ring attachment mechanism configured to attach the visual guide to a wire driver. The guide wires representing the trajectory of the k-wire in two orthogonal planes thus allo...