US Patent Issued to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 6 for "Intramedullary implant with proximal plate and method for its use" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,747, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Intramedullary implant with proximal plate and method for its use" was invented by David B. Kay (Akron, Ohio), Anthony Perera (Cardiff, Great Britain), Bryan Den Hartog (St. Paul, Minn.) and Dustin Ducharme (Stow, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orthopedic implant is specifically configured for use in osteotomies, in which part of the implant extends into an intramedullary portion of a first bone segment and a plate portion is external to the cortical surface of an adjacent bone segment to fix the segments to allow them to fuse. The body of...