US Patent Issued to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY on July 21 for "Minimally invasive guides and cutting instruments" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,544, issued on July 21, was assigned to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Minimally invasive guides and cutting instruments" was invented by Kian-Ming Wong (Lakeland, Tenn.), Brian Robert Thoren (Memphis, Tenn.) and Shawn McGinley (Arlington, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical guide includes a first guide arm extending from a first end to a second end on a first longitudinal axis. The first guide arm defines a first plurality of openings sized and configured to receive a first guide element therethrough. A second guide arm extends from a first end to a second end on a second longitudinal axis. The second ...