US Patent Issued to University of South Florida on June 16 for "Systems and methods for treating a sacroiliac joint" (Florida, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,698, issued on June 16, was assigned to University of South Florida (Tampa, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for treating a sacroiliac joint" was invented by Thomas B. Freeman (Tampa, Fla.) and Thomas G. Hoghaug (Chanhassen, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating a sacroiliac joint and/or a region proximate the sacroiliac joint includes distracting and/or stabilizing a recess between a sacral wall of a sacrum and an ilial wall of an ilium, cutting a surface of the ilial wall using a cutting device, and positioning an implant having a first planar wall and a second planar wall opposite the first planar wall into the rece...