US Patent Issued to OrthoPediatrics on June 9 for "Assembly fixture for intramedullary nail" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,803, issued on June 9, was assigned to OrthoPediatrics Corp. (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Assembly fixture for intramedullary nail" was invented by Chris M. Powers (Warsaw, Ind.), Michael Giordano (Osceola, Ind.) and Luis Vega (Warsaw, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for aligning an intramedullary nail for implantation when the intramedullary nail has an intramedullary nail body having a first end having a first interlocking profile and the intramedullary nail body has a first through hole extending therethrough about a first axis. The system comprises an alignment device adapted and configured to be separable from the in...