US Patent Issued to Advita Ortho on Aug. 11 for "Acromion fracture repair system" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,458, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Advita Ortho LLC (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Acromion fracture repair system" was invented by Christopher P. Roche (Gainesville, Fla.), Corey Gaydos (Gainesville, Fla.), Mark Bender (Gainesville, Fla.), David Koogle (Trenton, Fla.), George S. Athwal (London, Canada) and Joaquin Sanchez-Sotelo (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A kit including (1) a plate configured to be secured to a scapular spine with a first end of the plate near a trigonum and a second end of the plate near an acromion; (2) a first hook including a mount, a first hook portion extending from the mount in a first dire...