US Patent Issued to New Standard Device on July 14 for "External fixation for the correction of bone deformity and trauma" (Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,197, issued on July 14, was assigned to New Standard Device LLC (San Antonio).

"External fixation for the correction of bone deformity and trauma" was invented by Robert E. Wigginton (McKinney, Texas), Bryant T. Phamvu (San Antonio), Adam P. Shonebarger (San Antonio) and C. Douglas Klein Jr. (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an apparatus and component parts of a system for the external fixation of bones. The component parts include fixation plates such as a C-shaped Plate, an N-shaped Plate, a J-shaped Plate, a K-shaped Plate, an I-shaped Plate, a Foor Plate, a Z-shaped Plate and a T-shaped Plate. Two or more...