US Patent Issued to Oregon State University on March 24 for "Apparatus and corresponding method for measuring lumbar spine" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,372, issued on March 24, was assigned to Oregon State University (Corvallis, Ore.).

"Apparatus and corresponding method for measuring lumbar spine" was invented by Morgan B. Giers (Corvallis, Ore.) and Sonia Ahrens (Corvallis, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a technique (e.g., apparatus and method) to improve consistency of lumbar lordosis (LL) and disc height index (DHI) measurements. In at least one embodiment, one or more processors are to measure lumber spine based, at least in part, on cross-sectional area and optical center of mass of segmented intervertebral discs (IVDs)."

The patent was filed on Apri...