US Patent Issued to Stryker European Operations on Sept. 8 for "Technique for guiding a surgeon on how to adapt a pre-planned position of at least one implant interface" (German, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,943, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Stryker European Operations Ltd. (Carrigtwohill, Ireland).

"Technique for guiding a surgeon on how to adapt a pre-planned position of at least one implant interface" was invented by Oliver Weede (Freiburg, Germany), Markus Finke (Berlin) and Maria Manuel Carvalho de Freitas Martins (Eguisheim, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for guiding a surgeon on how to adapt a pre-planned position of an implant interface. The implant interface is configured to couple to an implant connector configured to connect the implant interface with an implant interface of another implant. The method is...