US Patent Issued to Treace Medical Concepts on Sept. 8 for "Contour guide for small bone surface modification" (Florida, West Virginia, Colorado, Iowa, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,895, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Treace Medical Concepts Inc. (Ponte Vedra, Fla.).

"Contour guide for small bone surface modification" was invented by Adriaan Kuyler (Ponte Vedra, Fla.), W. Bret Smith (Durango, Colo.), Madeline Lindemann (Palm Coast, Fla.), Sean F. Scanlan (Jacksonville, Fla.), Jason May (St. John's, Fla.), Robert D. Santrock (Morgantown, W.va.), Mark Erik Easley (Durham, N.C.), Paul Dayton (Ankeny, Iowa), Jody McAleer (Jefferson City, Mo.), William T. DeCarbo (Pittsburgh), Daniel J. Hatch (Greeley, Colo.) and Steve Norton (Jacksonville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of modifying a bone surface ...