US Patent Issued to DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS on Sept. 23 for "Patient-specific registration jig and associated method for registering an orthopaedic surgical instrument to a patient" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,689, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS INC. (Raynham, Mass.).

"Patient-specific registration jig and associated method for registering an orthopaedic surgical instrument to a patient" was invented by Thomas S. Camino (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and Barry A. Schnieders (Walkerton, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient-specific registration jig for registering an orthopaedic surgical instrument with a bony anatomy of a patient includes a head and an adaptor coupled to the head. The head includes a patient-specific contact surface configured to contact a portion of the patient's bony anatomy such that the head c...