US Patent Issued to Smith & Nephew on June 30 for "Technologies for intra-operative ligament balancing using machine learning" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,303, issued on June 30, was assigned to Smith & Nephew Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Technologies for intra-operative ligament balancing using machine learning" was invented by Brian W. McKinnon (Bartlett, Tenn.) and Scott Laster (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system having at least one sensor, at least one processor, and at least one memory including a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by the at least one processor, causes the computing system to receive one or more surgical parameters associated with a ligament balancing of a patient's joint, receive real-time sensor data ...