US Patent Issued to Treace Medical Concepts on April 14 for "Multi-sided cutting instrument for mobilizing small bones in the foot" (Iowa, West Virginia, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,389, issued on April 14, was assigned to Treace Medical Concepts Inc. (Ponte Vedra, Fla.).

"Multi-sided cutting instrument for mobilizing small bones in the foot" was invented by Paul Dayton (Ankeny, Iowa), William T. DeCarbo (Pittsburgh), Jody McAleer (Jefferson City, Mo.), Robert D. Santrock (Morgantown, W.va.), Mark Erik Easley (Durham, N.C.), Adriaan Kuyler (Ponte Vedra, Fla.) and Bryan Wilcox (St. Augustine, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orthopedic cutting instrument can be used to cut and release soft tissue to mobilize a bone for subsequent realignment of the bone. In some examples, the cutting instrument is configur...