US Patent Issued to Treace Medical Concepts on March 24 for "Osteotomy procedure for correcting bone misalignment" (Tennessee, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,411, issued on March 24, was assigned to Treace Medical Concepts Inc. (Ponte Vedra, Fla.).

"Osteotomy procedure for correcting bone misalignment" was invented by F. Barry Bays (Collierville, Tenn.), Joe W. Ferguson (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), Carlos Eduardo Gil (Memphis, Tenn.), Tyler Hissong (Jacksonville, Fla.), Danielle Peterson (Jacksonville, Fla.), Sean F. Scanlan (Jacksonville, Fla.), Michael Stedham (Jacksonville, Fla.) and Justin Valentine (St. Augustine, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An osteotomy procedure may be performed to correct a misalignment of a bone, such as a bunion deformity. In some examples, the osteotomy ...