US Patent Issued to OrthAlign on June 30 for "Systems and methods for limb alignment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,468, issued on June 30, was assigned to OrthAlign Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for limb alignment" was invented by James Gannoe (Laguna Niguel, Calif.) and Steven DeVincentis (Laguna Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides, in certain embodiments, a device for determining the tibial mechanical axis and the femoral mechanical axis. The present invention also provides a surgical orientation device, a reference device, and/or a module configured to track the mechanical axes during movement to facilitate limb alignment. The present invention further provides the surgical orientation devi...