US Patent Issued to OrthAlign on Oct. 20 for "Soft tissue measurement and balancing systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,891, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to OrthAlign Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Soft tissue measurement and balancing systems and methods" was invented by Jonathan Nielsen (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Matthew Yacono (Lake Forest, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for joint replacement are provided. The systems and methods can include a surgical orientation device and/or a reference sensor device. The surgical orientation device and orthopedic fixtures can be used to locate the orientation of an axis in the body, to adjust an orientation of a cutting plane or planes along a bony surface, to distract a joint, to measure ...