ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,999, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, LINKOU (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Taipei, Taiwan).
"Method of orthopedic treatment" was invented by Alvin Chao-Yu Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Yi-Sheng Chan (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chi-Pin Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan), Shang-Chih Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Chin-Ju Wu (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Jeng-Ywan Jeng (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of orthopedic treatment includes steps of: by using a computer aided design (CAD) tool based on profile data that is related to a to-be-treated part of a bone of a patient, obtainin...