US Patent Issued to CurveBeam on Dec. 16 for "For measuring the axial (transverse), coronal (frontal) and sagittal (bisection) alignment of a lower limb" (American, British, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,033, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CurveBeam LLC (Hatfield, Pa.).

"For measuring the axial (transverse), coronal (frontal) and sagittal (bisection) alignment of a lower limb" was invented by Andrew Goldberg (Bushey, Great Britain), Uwe Mundry (Easley, S.C.), Stuti Singh (Seattle), Guy Long (Surrey, Great Britain), Francois L.A. Lintz (Balma, France) and Cesar de Cesar Netto (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining axial alignment of a lower limb includes determining a three-dimensional volume based on a scan of a lower limb of a patient, identifying a level of hip version by referring to a first axis ...