US Patent Issued to Treace Medical Concepts on Dec. 2 for "First metatarsal lateral release instrument and technique" (Iowa, West Virginia, Colorado, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,917, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Treace Medical Concepts Inc. (Ponte Vedra, Fla.).

"First metatarsal lateral release instrument and technique" was invented by Paul Dayton (Ankeny, Iowa), William T. DeCarbo (Pittsburgh), Daniel J. Hatch (Greeley, Colo.), Jody McAleer (Jefferson City, Mo.), Robert D. Santrock (Morgantown, W.va.), W. Bret Smith (Durango, Colo.), Mark Erik Easley (Durham, N.C.) and Bryan Wilcox (St. Augustine, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Instruments and techniques can be used to release a first metatarsal for realignment. In some implementations, a techniques involves surgically accessing a sesamoidal ligame...