US Patent Issued to Tenon Medical on July 21 for "Multi-function bone structure prostheses" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,644, issued on July 21, was assigned to Tenon Medical Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Multi-function bone structure prostheses" was invented by Richard S Ginn (Gilroy, Calif.) and Richard Brown (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for treating dysfunctional SI joints that includes a multi-function bone structure prosthesis adapted to be delivered to and inserted into a dysfunctional SI joint via a posterior approach, the multi-function bone structure prosthesis, when disposed in a dysfunctional SI joint, being adapted to (i) stabilize the dysfunctional SI joint, (ii) induce proliferation, and/or growth and/or r...