US Patent Issued to Carlsmed on Dec. 9 for "Systems and methods for designing orthopedic implants based on tissue characteristics" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,075, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Carlsmed Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for designing orthopedic implants based on tissue characteristics" was invented by Niall Patrick Casey (Carlsbad, Calif.), Michael J. Cordonnier (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Justin Esterberg (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and computer-implemented method for manufacturing an orthopedic implant involves analyzing tissue characteristics based on image data of anatomy. Image data of a patient can be analyzed to identify at least one tissue characteristic at different locations along anatomic elements of anatomy of interes...