US Patent Issued to Crossroads Extremity Systems on Oct. 6 for "Systems and methods for joint fusion" (Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,836, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Crossroads Extremity Systems LLC (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Systems and methods for joint fusion" was invented by Michael Campbell (Virginia Beach, Va.), Scott Shawen (Charlotte, N.C.), Daniel Sayger (Olive Branch, Miss.) and Michael Chad Hollis (Collierville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are disclosed for excising a joint between first and second bones to define a resected joint, approximating the first and second bones to reduce the resected joint, and fixing the first and second bones relative to each other. The excising step can be performed using a cut guide that is mov...