US Patent Issued to ARTHREX on June 16 for "Omitted bone estimation techniques for surgical planning" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,617, issued on June 16, was assigned to ARTHREX INC. (Naples, Fla.).

"Omitted bone estimation techniques for surgical planning" was invented by Nick Metcalfe (Bonita Springs, Fla.) and Sergii Poltaretskyi (Ependes FR, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Imagery of patient anatomy may be captured with an imaging device. The imaging device may be configured to capture only a portion of the patient anatomy, including one or more bones of the patient. A surgical planning system may be configured to predict or otherwise determine a geometry of the omitted portions of the anatomy based on a comparison of the captured anatomy to the ...