US Patent Issued to DePuy Ireland UnLtd. on July 14 for "System and methods for femur-first orthopaedic surgical procedures" (British, American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,231, issued on July 14, was assigned to DePuy Ireland UnLtd. Co. (Ringaskiddy, Ireland).

"System and methods for femur-first orthopaedic surgical procedures" was invented by David Wolfson (Batley, Great Britain), Nicolas Demanget (Cambridge, Mass.), Sarah Radcliffe (Rawdon, Great Britain) and Daniel Girardeau-Montaut (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A femur-first orthopaedic surgical procedure may include using a surgical navigation system to perform one or more initial measurements on a femur of a patient, a tibia of the patient, or both and to develop a surgical plan for the orthopaedic surgical procedure based on t...