US Patent Issued to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 14 for "Preparing a tibia for receiving tibial implant component of a replacement ankle" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,227, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Preparing a tibia for receiving tibial implant component of a replacement ankle" was invented by Ramon Luna (Arlington, Tenn.) and Kian-Ming Wong (Lakeland, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of preparing a tibial intramedullary canal for receiving a tibial implant such as a stem component of a total ankle replacement prosthesis where an extended cavity is prepared in the tibial intramedullary canal by pulling a tibial reamer bit in the proximal direction from the distal end of a tibia into the tibial intramedullary canal...