ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,482, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Carlsmed Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Techniques to map three-dimensional human anatomy data to two-dimensional human anatomy data" was invented by Niall Patrick Casey (Carlsbad, Calif.), Jeffery Pennal (San Diego), Rodrigo Junqueira Nicolau (Cardiff, Calif.), Matthew Chen (San Diego), Austin Wulf (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Jeremy Winston (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for designing and implementing patient-specific surgical procedures and/or medical devices are disclosed. An example method includes obtaining a first multi-dimensional image data of an anatomical region o...