US Patent Issued to DePuy Synthes Products on June 23 for "Methods and devices for bone fragment fixation" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,162, issued on June 23, was assigned to DePuy Synthes Products Inc. (Raynham, Mass.).

"Methods and devices for bone fragment fixation" was invented by Jacob Hunter Loschinskey (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for fixating a bone fragment may include delivering a first device into a first bone such that a first portion of the first device is fixed in the first bone and a second portion of the first device extends outward from the first bone; cutting the first bone to generate the bone fragment, wherein the first portion of the first device is fixed in the bone fragment; and placing an apparatus on an exterior su...