US Patent Issued to DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS on Oct. 6 for "Customized patient-specific orthopaedic surgical instrument using patient-specific contacting bodies and parametric fixed geometry" (Indiana, Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,768, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS INC. (Raynham, Mass.).

"Customized patient-specific orthopaedic surgical instrument using patient-specific contacting bodies and parametric fixed geometry" was invented by Shawnoah S. Pollock (South Bend, Ind.), Anwar Mohammed (Warsaw, Ind.), Randy P. Mangen (Yorkshire, Ohio), Francis G. Metelues (Fort Wayne, Ind.), R. Patrick Courtis (Boston) and Luke J. Aram (Winona Lake, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A model production device generates one or more contact bodies of a patient-specific surgical instrument model based on a parameterized model of a patient's bone. The ...