US Patent Issued to ARTHREX on July 22 for "Orthopaedic planning systems, instrumentation and methods of repair" (Florida, Georgia, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,539, issued on July 22, was assigned to ARTHREX INC. (Naples, Fla.).

"Orthopaedic planning systems, instrumentation and methods of repair" was invented by Nick Metcalfe (Bonita Springs, Fla.), David Knopf (Bonita Springs, Fla.), Loren Crook (Fort Myers, Fla.), Matthew Provencher (Edwards, Colo.) and Stephen Parada (Augusta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to planning systems, methods and instrumentation. The planning systems, methods and instrumentation disclosed herein may be utilized for planning orthopaedic procedures to restore functionality to a joint, may include determining an amount of bone loss alo...