US Patent Issued to Howmedica Osteonics on April 7 for "Computer-implemented surgical planning based on bone loss during orthopedic revision surgery" (French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,170, issued on April 7, was assigned to Howmedica Osteonics Corp. (Mahwah, N.J.).

"Computer-implemented surgical planning based on bone loss during orthopedic revision surgery" was invented by Jean Chaoui (Locmaria Plouzane, France) and Sergii Poltaretskyi (Ependes, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical assistance system may obtain a pre-revision model of a bone of a patient. The pre-revision model of the bone represents a pre-revision state of the bone after a prior orthopedic surgery on the bone. In this example, an orthopedic prosthesis was attached to the bone during the prior orthopedic surgery. Additionally, the...