US Patent Issued to Crossroads Extremity Systems on June 16 for "Bone repositioning guide system and procedure" (Tennessee, Mississippi Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,687, issued on June 16, was assigned to Crossroads Extremity Systems LLC (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Bone repositioning guide system and procedure" was invented by Daniel Sayger (Hernando, Miss.), Michael Chad Hollis (Collierville, Tenn.) and Vernon Hartdegen (Collierville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system and procedure are provided for correcting a deformity between first and second bones using an alignment guide based on a correction factor. The alignment guide is used to insert one or more k-wires into each of the first and second bones in a deformed configuration. A correction guide is passed along the k-wires to rot...