ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,477, issued on March 24, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).
"Computer-implemented method for determination of a bone cement volume of a bone cement for a percutaneous vertebroplasty" was invented by Annette Birkhold (Stuttgart, Germany) and Alois Regensburger (Poxdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for determination of a bone cement volume of a bone cement for a percutaneous vertebroplasty, which reduces complications due to the information provided by the method. The computer-implemented method includes: reading in or receiving data about a ...