US Patent Issued to Stryker on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods for forming patient-specific spinal rods" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,469, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for forming patient-specific spinal rods" was invented by Alex Schroeder (Columbia, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method using a computer system determines a length of a rod for use in spine correction surgery. With images of a patient, a segment of the spine requiring correction is identified along with first and second points at the ends of the segment. Then, a first size and a first position of a first circle are determined based on the image such that a portion of the first circle is generally aligned with a curv...