US Patent Issued to Stryker Australia on Feb. 17 for "Implant design optimization for geometric uncertainty" (Australian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,284, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Stryker Australia PTY LTD (Artarmon, Australia).

"Implant design optimization for geometric uncertainty" was invented by Tom Williamson (Brunswick, Australia), Ulrich Buehner (Denzlingen, Germany) and Darpan Shidid (Gungahlin, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method of planning orthopedic surgery. The method can include taking a scan of a patient bone, estimating a potential registration error to occur during the orthopedic surgery, and designing an implant based upon the scan and the potential registration error. The scan can be a three-dimensional scan. The impla...