ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,786, issued on May 12, was assigned to Carlsmed Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Patient-specific implant design, manufacture and platform with clinical and third-party data acquisition" was invented by Niall Patrick Casey (Carlsbad, Calif.), Sarah Jauregui (San Diego) and Jeremy Winston (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for designing patient-specific orthopedic implants. The systems and methods can include automated collection protocols for available third-party data to use to generate surgical plans or patient-specific orthopedic implant designs. The system can identify triggers for collecting third-party data. ...