US Patent Issued to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. on Sept. 23 for "System and method for verification of location during surgery" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,761, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. COMPANY (County Cork, Ireland).

"System and method for verification of location during surgery" was invented by Didier Poncet (Villeurbanne, France) and Nicolas Demanget (Saint-Egreve, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A verification instrument configured to verify the location of a surgical end-effector, including: a body; a navigation element disposed and configured to represent a spatial location of the body; a first clip extending from the body configured to clip onto a tool; a length measurement portion disposed at a first angle from the body, wherein the length ...