US Patent Issued on Dec. 9 for "Methods and systems for targeted alignment and sagittal plane positioning for hip replacement surgery" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,090, issued on Dec. 9.

"Methods and systems for targeted alignment and sagittal plane positioning for hip replacement surgery" was invented by Russell J. Bodner (Sycamore, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides example methods and non-transitory computer-readable mediums for acetabular cup placement. An example method includes a processor (a) determining for a first patient a sagittal acetabular cup position in the form of a standing AI, a seated AI and a SAA based on (i) a standing SS relative to a normative SS, (ii) a dSS between a standing position and an upright seated position, (iii) a femoral version corresp...