ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,483, issued on Aug. 11.
"Conformation based bone model generation and associated surgical techniques" was invented by Albert C. Lynch (Landenberg, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems related to bone model generation and associated surgical techniques are discussed herein. A disclosed method for generating a bone model for a patient bone includes storing a conforming bone template model, accepting a nonconformity of the patient bone, and generating a nonconforming bone model using the nonconformity of the patient bone and the bone template model. The nonconformity is used to set a constraint of the conforming bone t...