US Patent Issued to INTELLIJOINT SURGICAL on Dec. 16 for "System and method for pre-planning a procedure" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,139, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to INTELLIJOINT SURGICAL INC. (Kitchener, Canada).

"System and method for pre-planning a procedure" was invented by Peter Sculco (New York), Andre Novomir Hladio (Waterloo, Canada) and Joseph Arthur Schipper (Kitchener, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and systems to provided planning tools for surgery, particularly for THA. Images of musculoskeletal structure of a patient (e.g. associated with respective planes and in a same or different functional position) may be displayed together and via co-registration and spatial transformations, 3D implants or other objects may b...