ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,212, issued on April 21, was assigned to Materialise N.V. (Leuven, Belgium).
"Systems and methods of determining ligament attachment areas with respect to the location of a rotational axis of a joint implant" was invented by Mariska Wesseling (Leuven, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of determining ligament attachment areas with respect to the location of a rotational axis of a joint implant are disclosed. Certain embodiments provide a computer-implemented method of evaluating placement of a joint implant with respect to a joint. The method includes determining one or more ligament attachment regions of the...