US Patent Issued to DePuy Ireland UnLtd. on Jan. 20 for "Provisional alignment tools and methods for computer-assisted orthopaedic surgical procedures" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,585, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to DePuy Ireland UnLtd. Co. (Ringaskiddy, Ireland).

"Provisional alignment tools and methods for computer-assisted orthopaedic surgical procedures" was invented by Nicolas Demanget (Cambridge, Mass.) and James Brownhill (Norton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provisional alignment tools and associated methods for computer-assisted orthopaedic surgical procedures are disclosed. One such method comprises pinning a bone tracking assembly to a patient's bone, attaching a provisional alignment tool to the bone tracking assembly such that the provisional alignment tool maintains a cutting guide at...