US Patent Issued to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 6 for "Ankle replacement system and method" (Tennessee, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,726, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Ankle replacement system and method" was invented by Shawn McGinley (Arlington, Tenn.), Robert M. Howles (Bartlett, Tenn.), Daniel E. Free (Oakland, Tenn.), Vinay D. Patel (Memphis, Tenn.), Ramon Luna (Arlington, Tenn.) and Matthew D. Schultz (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that provides a guide arm, a ratchet arm frame configured to be coupled to the guide arm, a ratchet arm configured to be coupled to the ratchet arm frame, and a sagittal sizing guide body configured to be coupled to the ratchet arm. The sagittal sizing gu...