ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,161, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Intraoperative alignment assessment system and method" was invented by David Michael Gullotti (Towson, Md.), Amir Hossein Soltanianzadeh (Baltimore), Nicholas Theodore (Ruxton, Md.), Edward Frederick Ruppel III (Saratoga, Calif.), Saki Fujita (Baltimore), Nicholas Griesmer Franconi (Pittsburgh), Miguel Antonio Inserni (Alamo, Calif.), Jennifer Lin (Oceanside, N.Y.), Robert Li (Cypress, Calif.), Ali Uneri (Baltimore), Sritam Parashar Rout (Methuen, Mass.), Marc Chelala (Montreal), Kyle Robert Cowdrick (Lilburn, Ga.) and Maria Fernanda Torres (Caracas, Venezuela).

According to the abstract* released by the...