ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,607, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Acumed LLC (Hillsboro, Ore.).
"Adjustable joint optimizations" was invented by Andrew W. Seykora (Portland, Ore.), Rebecca Schaldach (Portland, Ore.), David VanVleet (Hillsboro, Ore.), Joseph Pia (Willow Street, Pa.) and Kevin Nguyen (Beaverton, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing an apparatus for fixing bone includes mating a first plate with a second plate, where the first plate includes a screw slot and the second plate includes a through hole corresponding to the screw slot; and placing a screw body into the screw slot and the through hole. The screw body includes ...