US Patent Issued to EXTREMITY MEDICAL on Nov. 3 for "Orthopedic plate with modular peg and compression screw" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,646, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to EXTREMITY MEDICAL LLC (Parsippany, N.J.).

"Orthopedic plate with modular peg and compression screw" was invented by Raymond Penzimer (Parsippany, N.J.), Holman Chan (Parsippany, N.J.), William James (Parsippany, N.J.) and Vladimir Sherman (Parsippany, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Assemblies and methods for fixation of bone or bone fragments using an orthopedic plate, a modular peg, and a compression screw. The modular peg is screwed into one of the apertures of the orthopedic plate. The modular peg may include an aperture having screw threads designed to receive the threads of the compress...