US Patent Issued to Paragon 28 on May 26 for "Bone fixation plates and alignment guides" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,053, issued on May 26, was assigned to Paragon 28 Inc. (Englewood, Colo.).

"Bone fixation plates and alignment guides" was invented by Albert Dacosta (Lone Pine, Colo.), Tristan Collette (Denver) and Richard David Hunt (Arvada, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone plate alignment system includes an alignment guide and a bone plate. The alignment guide includes a body portion, a first arm extending from a first side of the body portion, and a second arm extending from a second side of the body portion. The first and second arms extend from the body portion at a substantially oblique angle relative to one another. The bone plate ...