US Patent Issued to Carlsmed on April 15 for "Systems and methods for physician designed surgical procedures" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,509, issued on April 15, was assigned to Carlsmed Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for physician designed surgical procedures" was invented by Jeffrey Roh (Seattle) and Justin Esterberg (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing assistance to a surgeon during an implant surgery are disclosed. A method includes defining areas of interest in diagnostic data of a patient and defining a screw bone type based on the surgeon's input. Post defining the areas of interest, salient points are determined for the areas of interest. Successively, an XZ angle, an XY angle, and a position entr...