US Patent Issued to Treace Medical Concepts on July 8 for "Joint spacer systems and methods" (Tennessee, West Virginia, Iowa, Florida, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,927, issued on July 8, was assigned to Treace Medical Concepts Inc. (Ponte Vedra, Fla.).

"Joint spacer systems and methods" was invented by F. Barry Bays (Collierville, Tenn.), Paul Dayton (Ankeny, Iowa), Joe William Ferguson (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), Carlos Eduardo Gil (Memphis, Tenn.), Robert D. Santrock (Morgantown, W.va.), Sean F. Scanlan (Jacksonville, Fla.), W. Bret Smith (Lexington, S.C.) and John T. Treace (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a method for preparing one or more bones involves inserting a spacer into a space defined between a first bone and a second bone, such as a joint spa...