US Patent Issued to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. on Aug. 18 for "Apparatus, system, and method for determining a position of a hip prosthesis in a bone of a patient" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,527, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. COMPANY (Ringaskiddy, Ireland).

"Apparatus, system, and method for determining a position of a hip prosthesis in a bone of a patient" was invented by Christopher Hunt (Leeds, Great Britain), Brittany Marshall (Warsaw, Ind.), Patrick Cannon (Warsaw, Ind.), Zahra Ehteshami (Leeds, Great Britain) and Filip Leszko (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, systems, and methods for determining a position of a hip prosthesis in a bone of a patient are disclosed. One method for planning an orthopaedic surgical procedure may comprise determining a first set of target o...