US Patent Issued to DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS on Dec. 16 for "Lateral proximal tibia plate with extension arm" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,110, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS INC. (Raynham, Mass.).

"Lateral proximal tibia plate with extension arm" was invented by Johanna Menze (Zurich), Andre Weber (Olten, Switzerland) and Martin Altmann (Zuchwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treating an articular fracture of a tibia using a tibia plate with an extension arm, including: making an incision to expose the tibia; reducing the articular fracture of the tibia; contouring the tibia plate to fit the tibia; preliminarily fixing the tibia plate to the tibia; placing a screw partially into the tibia through a lateral elongated ...