US Patent Issued to DePuy Ireland UnLtd. on Dec. 23 for "Systems and methods for negative registration of bone surfaces" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,221, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to DePuy Ireland UnLtd. Co. (Ringaskiddy, Ireland).

"Systems and methods for negative registration of bone surfaces" was invented by Adam Ryals (Fuquay Varina, N.C.) and Daniel Girardeau-Montaut (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for bone surface geometry generation include a computing device. The computing device projects first geometry data indicative of a first bone-contacting surface of a first bone of a patient to a coordinate space of a second bone of the patient to generate projected geometry. The second bone includes a second bone-contacting surface that i...