US Patent Issued to SMITH & NEPHEW, SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS, SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC on Sept. 22 for "Variable fixation bone plates" (Tennessee, New York, Massachusetts, Washington, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,815, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SMITH & NEPHEW INC. (Memphis, Tenn.), SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG (Zug, Switzerland) and SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Variable fixation bone plates" was invented by Ramprasad Papannagari (Collierville, Tenn.), Nicholas S. Ritchey (Collierville, Tenn.), Paul Tornetta III (Chestnut Hill, Mass.), William M. Ricci (New York), Reza Firoozabadi (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Hassan Mir (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pelvic bone plate (100) includes a brim segment (101) coupled to a quadrilateral surface (QLS) segment (102) via at least one bridge (103). The brim...