ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,919, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC (Portage, Mich.).
"Software for use with deformity correction" was invented by Adam John Edelhauser (Nyack, N.Y.), Ashish Gangwar (Gurgaon, India) and Sandeep Menon (1st Cross Cooke Town, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to software used in planning the correction of bone deformities preoperatively or postoperatively, and in particular relates to virtually manipulating rings and struts of an external fixation frame in order to plan the steps for making a desired correction to two or more bone portions of a patient. The ...