ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,025, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Carlsmed Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for multi-planar orthopedic alignment" was invented by Michael J. Cordonnier (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for designing a patient-specific implant includes obtaining image data of a region of interest of the spine of a patient, measuring one or more geometric characteristic of the region of interest from the image data, comparing a measurement obtained for at least one of the one or more geometric characteristics to a mathematical rule associated with the particular geometric characteristic, and generating thr...