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US 12,440,250 · App. 18/432,396 · Granted Oct 14, 2025

Multi-diameter K-wire for orthopedic applications

Inventors: John T. Treace (Ponte Vedra Beach, FL); Sean F. Scanlan (Jacksonville, FL); Michael Stedham (Jacksonville, FL)
Assignee: Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.
A61B17/7291A61B17/848A61B17/8875
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Patent No.
US 12,440,250
App. No.
18/432,396
Granted
Oct 14, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A multi-diameter fixation pin, such as a K-wire can be used during an orthopedic procedure. The multi-diameter fixation pin may include a leading diameter sized for the specific orthopedic procedure being undertaken and/or the size of the bone into which the fixation pin is being inserted. The multi-diameter fixation pin may include a trailing diameter different than the leading diameter. The trailing diameter may be sized for use with a specific sized powered driver. For example, in orthopedic procedures that involve inserting larger diameter pins and smaller diameter pins into bone(s), all pins used in the procedure may have a trailing diameter (e.g., the larger diameter or the smaller diameter) that allows the pins to be inserted with the same powered driver (e.g., the same attachment head) without needing different sized drivers or attachment heads for different sized pins.

Claims (18)

1. A method comprising:

inserting a pin having a first diameter into a collet of a powered driver and driving the pin into a bone portion; and

inserting a driver engagement portion of a multi-diameter fixation pin into the collet of the powered driver and driving a bone insertion portion of the multi-diameter fixation pin into the bone portion;

wherein the collet of the powered driver is sized to receive the pin having the first diameter and the driver engagement portion of the multi-diameter fixation pin but not the bone insertion portion of the multi-diameter fixation pin.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the bone portion is a first bone portion, and inserting the pin having the first diameter into the collet of the powered driver and driving the pin into the bone portion comprises:

inserting a first pin having the first diameter into the collet of the powered driver and driving the first pin into the first bone portion,

removing the first pin from the collet of the powered driver while the first pin remains in the first bone portion,

inserting a second pin having the first diameter into the collet of the powered driver and driving the second pin into a second bone portion separated from the first bone portion by (a) a joint or (b) a cut dividing a bone into the first bone portion and the second bone portion; and

removing the second pin from the collet of the powered driver while the second pin remains in the second bone portion.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein inserting the driver engagement portion of the multi-diameter fixation pin into the collet of the powered driver comprises inserting the multi-diameter fixation pin into the collet to a depth less than or equal to a depth denoted by an indicator on the multi-diameter fixation pin.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the indicator comprises a notch formed into a perimeter surface of a body of the multi-diameter fixation pin.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first diameter and a diameter of the driver engagement portion each ranges from 2.0 mm to 3.2 mm, and a diameter of the bone insertion portion ranges from 0.7 mm to 1.8 mm.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first diameter and a diameter of the driver engagement portion each are greater than or equal to 2.0 mm, and a diameter of the bone insertion portion is less than 2.0 mm.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein driving the bone insertion portion of the multi-diameter fixation pin into the bone portion comprises driving the bone insertion portion of the multi-diameter fixation pin through the bone portion and into an adjacent bone portion.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the bone portion comprises a metatarsal or a portion thereof.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising moving the bone portion to correct a bunion deformity.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein moving the bone portion to correct the bunion deformity comprises moving the bone portion in a transverse plane and rotating the bone portion in a frontal plane.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein the metatarsal is a first metatarsal.

Assignments (2)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Dec 18, 2025
From: TREACE MEDICAL CONCEPTS, INC.
To: SLR INVESTMENT CORP.
Reel/Frame 074011/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 17, 2024
From: TREACE, JOHN T.; SCANLAN, SEAN F.; STEDHAM, MICHAEL
To: TREACE MEDICAL CONCEPTS, INC.
Reel/Frame 067746/0748 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation 17018422 · Sep 11, 2020
Provisional Application 62900391 · Sep 13, 2019
Related Publication 20240173056A1 · May 30, 2024
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