US Patent Issued to SMITH & NEPHEW, SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS, SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC on July 21 for "Systems and methods for navigated reaming of the acetabulum" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,540, issued on July 21, was assigned to SMITH & NEPHEW INC. (Memphis, Tenn.), SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG (Zug, Switzerland) and SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Systems and methods for navigated reaming of the acetabulum" was invented by Branislav Jaramaz (Pittsburgh), Rahul Khare (Sewickley, Pa.), Constantinos Nikou (Monroeville, Pa.) and Samuel C. Dumpe (Sewickley, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for real-time navigation of reaming of an acetabulum are disclosed. A first tracking element is interfaced to a reamer. A second tracking element is interfaced at or near the acetabulum. The fi...