US Patent Issued to Vilex on March 24 for "Dual compression bone implants, systems, and methods" (Utah, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,452, issued on March 24, was assigned to Vilex LLC (Park City, Utah).

"Dual compression bone implants, systems, and methods" was invented by Brock Johnson (McMinnville, Tenn.), Daniel J. Triplett (Smithfield, Utah) and Kyle Atwood (Richmond, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing dual compression to a bone joint may include an elongate device having a distal portion receivable within a distal bone tunnel formed in a distal bone of the bone joint, an intermediate portion receivable within an intermediate bone tunnel formed in an intermediate bone of the bone joint, and a proximal portion receivable within a proxim...