US Patent Issued to DECISION SCIENCES MEDICAL on March 18 for "Acoustic orthopedic tracking system and methods" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,259, issued on March 18, was assigned to DECISION SCIENCES MEDICAL COMPANY LLC (Poway, Calif.).

"Acoustic orthopedic tracking system and methods" was invented by Dustin Kruse (Grand Island, N.Y.), Evan Freiburg (San Diego) and James J. Hayes (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for acquiring and providing information about orthopedic features of a body using acoustic energy. In some aspects, an acoustic orthopedic tracking system includes portable acoustic transducers to obtain orthopedic position information for feeding the information to an orthopedic surgical system for surgical op...