US Patent Issued to Carilion Clinic on Oct. 20 for "Personalized device baseplate using 3D scanning and substractive manufacturing" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,028, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Carilion Clinic (Roanoke, Va.).

"Personalized device baseplate using 3D scanning and substractive manufacturing" was invented by Adam Goode (Roanoke, Va.), Christopher Arena (Blacksburg, Va.) and Robert Fippinger (Roanoke, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personalized ostomy appliance, including a baseplate, leveraging three-dimensional ("3D") scanning, computer-aided design modeling, and 3D printing technology, to empower patients to improve quality of life and decrease ostomy complications. In embodiments, the process uses 3D scanning technology to create a raw peristomal mesh. In embodim...