ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,046, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to EXTREMIS ROBOTICS (Saint-Martin-d'Heres, France).
"Method for performing an ankle arthroplasty" was invented by Anaelle Blachon (Saint-Martin-d'Heres, France) and Stephane Lavallee (Saint-Martin-d'Heres, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for performing an ankle arthroplasty comprising: fixing the talar tracker, the tibial tracker and the surgical tool tracker, to determine relative poses of the talus, the tibia and the surgical tool with respect to one another, obtaining at least one segmented pre-operative 3D image of the ankle, obtaining at least one per-operative 2D image of the...