US Patent Issued on June 3 for "Joint implant extraction and placement system and localization device used therewith" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,310, issued on June 3.

"Joint implant extraction and placement system and localization device used therewith" was invented by Jeffrey Wilde (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implant localization device includes a coupler and a positioning system. The coupler is configured to removably engage an implant component to fix the positioning system in space relative to the implant component. The positioning system is in communication with a centralized computing system, whereby, due to the fixed spatial relationship between the positioning system and the implant component, via the coupler, and determinable changes in movement rela...