ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,472, issued on March 3, was assigned to OSTESYS (Saint Martin d'Heres, France).
"System for guiding an osteotomy procedure" was invented by Sylvain Fontaine (Saint-Martin-D'Heres, France), Thomas Lonjaret (Saint-Martin-D'Heres, France) and Marie-Anne Chanrion (Saint-Martin-D'Heres, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a system for guiding an osteotomy procedure on a tibia and/or a femur pertaining to a patient's lower limb to correct a misalignment of said lower limb, wherein a tibial tracker is fixed to the tibia and a femoral tracker is fixed to the femur, said system comprising a control unit con...