US Patent Issued to Joint Development on July 21 for "Self-biasing ankle clamp tibial alignment guide" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,611, issued on July 21, was assigned to Joint Development Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Self-biasing ankle clamp tibial alignment guide" was invented by Eric M. Dacus (Salt Lake City) and Luca Terziotti (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The self-biasing ankle clamp tibial alignment guide includes a clamp body, at least one lever arm outwardly extending from the clamp body, and an alignment rod generally upwardly extending toward a proximal end of a patient tibia and movable relative to the clamp body. A strap couples to the lever arm to exert a force thereon offset from a contact point where the clamp body pulls into engagemen...