US Patent Issued to DePuy Ireland UnLtd. on Nov. 4 for "Apparatus, system, and method for bone loss compensation of a patient's knee joint during an orthopaedic surgical procedure" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,442, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to DePuy Ireland UnLtd. Co. (Ringaskiddy, Ireland).

"Apparatus, system, and method for bone loss compensation of a patient's knee joint during an orthopaedic surgical procedure" was invented by Michael J. Rock (Leeds, Great Britain), Robert Freeman (Leeds, Great Britain) and Martin Preutenborbeck (Leeds, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, system, and method for compensating for bone loss of a patient's knee joint during the performance of an orthopaedic surgical procedure includes determining an estimated amount of bone loss of a bone of a patient's knee joint, determining an...