US Patent Issued to MEDARTIS on Dec. 16 for "Orthopedic fasteners, instruments and methods" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,108, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MEDARTIS AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Orthopedic fasteners, instruments and methods" was invented by Thomas Holton (Warsaw, Ind.) and Lon Weiner (Warsaw, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the invention relate to methods, implants, including bone plates, and instruments for compressing first and second bone portions or a bone portion and an implant together."

The patent was filed on Dec. 30, 2022, under Application No. 18/148,507.

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