US Patent Issued to DePuy Ireland UnLtd. on July 14 for "Systems and methods for planning and assisting orthopaedic surgical procedures" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,233, issued on July 14, was assigned to DePuy Ireland UnLtd. Co. (Ringaskiddy, Ireland).

"Systems and methods for planning and assisting orthopaedic surgical procedures" was invented by Adam Ryals (Fuquay Varina, N.C.) and Daniel Girardeau-Montaut (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for planning and assisting orthopaedic surgical procedures include a computer system and a robotic surgical device. The computer system receives multiple surgeon preferences, including target values and boundary values for surgical parameters of the orthopaedic surgical procedure. A surgeon uses the computer system to perf...