US Patent Issued to ORTHOSOFT on Nov. 3 for "Method and system for navigating a bone model in computer-assisted surgery" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,677, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ORTHOSOFT ULC (Montreal).

"Method and system for navigating a bone model in computer-assisted surgery" was invented by Marc-Antoine Dufour (Montreal), Myriam Valin (Laval, Canada), Jean-Sebastien Merette (Mont-St-Hilaire, Canada), Pierre Couture (Montreal) and Martin Brummund (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for outputting a three-dimensional (3D) bone model of a patient during computer-assisted surgery comprises a processing unit and a non-transitory computer-readable memory communicatively coupled to the processing unit. Computer-readable program instructions executable by the ...