US Patent Issued to Crossroads Extremity Systems on March 17 for "Systems and methods for bone fixation" (Mississippi Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,839, issued on March 17, was assigned to Crossroads Extremity Systems LLC (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Systems and methods for bone fixation" was invented by Daniel Sayger (Southaven, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing fixation of first and second bones includes a drill guide that receives a drill bit to create first and second holes in the first and second bones, respectively. Guide pins can be driven into the first and second holes. The guide pins are received by a surgical saw to guide the surgical saw toward a joint between the first and second bones, thereby creating a third hole in each of the bones across the j...