US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Sept. 22 for "Leg length and offset tracking with expandable trial femoral assembly" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,875, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Leg length and offset tracking with expandable trial femoral assembly" was invented by Israel Oluwasakin (Dresher, Pa.), Edward McGettigan (Norristown, Pa.) and Hayden Cameron (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods include tracking one or more of a leg length or an offset in a patient during a total hip arthroplasty (THA) procedure performed using a navigated surgical system, with an expandable trial femoral assembly. Certain methods include registering a pelvis of the patient to the navigated surgical system; and in various embodiments measu...