US Patent Issued to Howmedica Osteonics on June 2 for "Mixed reality guidance for bone graft cutting" (French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,538, issued on June 2, was assigned to Howmedica Osteonics Corp. (Mahwah, N.J.).

"Mixed reality guidance for bone graft cutting" was invented by Nicolas Neichel (Le Sappey en Chartreuse, France), Sergii Poltaretskyi (Ependes FR, Switzerland), Vincent Abel Maurice Simoes (Locmaria Plouzane, France) and Florence Delphine Muriel Maille (Locmaria Plouzane, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for bone-graft harvesting in orthopedic surgery. Processing circuitry may obtain a virtual model of a bone graft to be harvested from a donor bone, wherein the virtual model of the bone graft specifies a volume of the donor ...