US Patent Issued to Treace Medical Concepts on Oct. 27 for "Bone cutting guide systems and methods" (Iowa, Tennessee, Florida, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,246, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Treace Medical Concepts Inc. (Ponte Vedra, Fla.).

"Bone cutting guide systems and methods" was invented by Paul Dayton (Ankeny, Iowa), Joe William Ferguson (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), F. Barry Bays (Collierville, Tenn.), John T. Treace (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.) and W. Bret Smith (Lexington, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone cutting guide may include a support that contains a shaft movable relative to the support. The shaft may carry a guide member having one or more cut guides through which a clinician inserts a cutting member to cut bone positioned under the guide cut guides. In operat...