US Patent Issued to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY on July 28 for "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for correcting a bone defect" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,980, issued on July 28, was assigned to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Systems, apparatuses, and methods for correcting a bone defect" was invented by Zachary Korman (St. Louis), Erin Muller (Fort Wayne, Ind.), Brian Robert Thoren (Memphis, Tenn.), Paul Luttrell (Germantown, Tenn.), Bryan D. Den Hartog (St. Paul, Minn.), David B. Kay (Akron, Ohio) and Anthony Perera (Cardiff GBN, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implant having a unitary body includes an intramedullary portion and an extramedullary portion. The intramedullary portion is sized and structured to be received within an intramedullary cana...