US Patent Issued to Theseus AI on March 3 for "Pedicle screw and implant placement prediction engine" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,448, issued on March 3, was assigned to Theseus AI Inc. (Los Angeles).

"Pedicle screw and implant placement prediction engine" was invented by Billy Cao (San Francisco), Dave Harrison (San Francisco), Luke Macyszyn (Los Angeles), Sam Elhag (Los Angeles) and Marcus Karr (Redding, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for placing pedicle screws is disclosed herein. The method inputs a medical image having at least one bone image which is then divided into spatial segments. A set number of screws are spaced in each segment according to a neural network trained on medical images of screw placement in a simil...