US Patent Issued to Formus Labs on July 14 for "Surgical system" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,232, issued on July 14, was assigned to Formus Labs Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Surgical system" was invented by Ju Zhang (Auckland, New Zealand) and Thor Franciscus Besier (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, patient-specific data can be received for a patient's joint. A virtual model of at least part of the patient's joint and associated musculature can be constructed based at least partially on the patient specific data and an implant configuration. A post-operative muscle moment capacity for the patient's joint can be calculated based at least partially on the virtual model. Muscle moment cap...