US Patent Issued to KLS MARTIN on March 24 for "Bone plate implantation assembly" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,454, issued on March 24, was assigned to KLS MARTIN LP (Jacksonville, Fla.).

"Bone plate implantation assembly" was invented by Bridgette Wald (Jacksonville, Fla.), Bennie W. Gladdish Jr. (Jacksonville, Fla.) and Adam Grabow (Jacksonville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone plate implantation assembly having a plate holder composed of an elastomeric polymer, a bone plate and bone screws, the plate holder having a compressible midface retention protrusion located within a plate-receiving recess and the bone plate having a midbody retention aperture whereby the bone plate is temporarily retained on the plate holder by insertin...