US Patent Issued to Howmedica Osteonics on Dec. 16 for "Mixed-reality humeral-head sizing and placement" (Minnesota, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,135, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Howmedica Osteonics Corp. (Mahwah, N.J.).

"Mixed-reality humeral-head sizing and placement" was invented by Shawn Gargac (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and Paul Feng (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for guiding a joint replacement surgery. In some examples, a system includes a visualization device comprising one or more sensors; and processing circuitry configured to determine, based on data generated by the one or more sensors, one or more size parameters of a bone resection surface viewable via the visualization device; select, based on the one or more size paramet...