ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,071, issued on April 7, was assigned to CROSSROADS EXTREMITY SYSTEMS LLC (Memphis, Tenn.).
"Counter-torque implant" was invented by Vernon R. Hartdegen (Collierville, Tenn.), Michael Chad Hollis (Collierville, Tenn.) and Scott Hill (Atoka, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone plate system may include a bone plate having a bone-facing side, an obverse side displaced from the bone-facing side by a thickness of the bone plate, a first end, and second end displaced from the first end along a longitudinal length of the bone plate. The bone plate may have a first fastener hole extending through the bone plate between the bone-facing...