US Patent Issued to BRAINLAB on May 20 for "Automated pre-operative assessment of implant placement in human bone" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,204, issued on May 20, was assigned to BRAINLAB AG (Munich).

"Automated pre-operative assessment of implant placement in human bone" was invented by Balint Varkuti (Munich) and Bogdan Moldovan (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-assisted and automatic identification of possible cranial positions for any kind of implant is presented. In this method, skull data of the individual patient's skull are used as well as statistical skull data which include so-called skull avoidance zones. Further, a digital template of the implant is used to find these possible positions. The implant may be e.g. an IPG and/or the screws of a fi...