US Patent Issued to TriMed on July 14 for "Method and apparatus for maintaining a position of a bone fragment in relationship to another bone part" (Hawaii Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,208, issued on July 14, was assigned to TriMed Inc. (Santa Clarita, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for maintaining a position of a bone fragment in relationship to another bone part" was invented by Robert Medoff (Kailua, Hawaii).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for maintaining a position of a first bone part relative to a second bone part. The method includes the steps of: a) obtaining an apparatus having a base in the form of a plate and at least one elongate wire component having at least a portion with a length projecting angularly away from the base; b) placing the apparatus in an operative position wherein a...