US Patent Issued to DREXEL UNIVERSITY on May 27 for "Patient-specific template for total ankle replacement" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,604, issued on May 27, was assigned to DREXEL UNIVERSITY (Philadelphia).

"Patient-specific template for total ankle replacement" was invented by Sorin Siegler (Narberth, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alignment guide for total ankle replacement surgery and a method of creating and using the alignment guide. The alignment guide has a surface that interfaces with a corresponding surface of a superior aspect a talus of a patient, and as second surface portion that interfaces with a corresponding distal surface of a section of a tibia of the patient. When the alignment guide is in position, it maintains the ankle of the patient in...