ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,830, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Treace Medical Concepts Inc. (Ponte Vedra, Fla.).
"Patient-specific soft tissue rearrangement" was invented by Lee M. Hlad (Waycross, Ga.) and James Q. Spitler (Winter Garden, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for remediating a condition present in a patient. In some implementations, the apparatus may include a body and a trajectory port that extends through the body. The trajectory port guides a tool to form a bone tunnel in a bone of a patient. The trajectory port is defined at least partially on a bone model of at least a portion of bone of ...