US Patent Issued to Avanti Orthopaedics on Dec. 16 for "Bone shortening osteotomy apparatus" (Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,071, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Avanti Orthopaedics LLC (Newark, Del.).

"Bone shortening osteotomy apparatus" was invented by John Douglas Patterson (Wilmington, Del.), Cyrus B. Gooray (Needham, Mass.), Meredith Nita Osterman (Wayne, Pa.) and Devanand Gooray (Penn Valley, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone shortening osteotomy apparatus is configured to provide positive retention of the bone portions as the two cut bone portions are retracted. The apparatus utilizes a bone plate with a compression block detachable attached in a fixed position and a sled assembly that is slidably engaged with the bone plate. A jacking s...