US Patent Issued to ETH Zurich, The Brigham andWomen's Hospital on July 1 for "Patient specific fracture plates with bone fragment based screw orientation" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,087, issued on July 1, was assigned to ETH Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland) and The Brigham andWomen's Hospital Inc. (Boston).

"Patient specific fracture plates with bone fragment based screw orientation" was invented by Thomas Zumbrunn (Hasliberg, Switzerland), Arvind Gabriel Von Keudell (Brookline, Mass.) and Stephan J. Ferguson (Hinwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for generating a bone fixation implant and related preoperative planning. The method comprises a first step of determining at least the orientation and the position of the fixation means, based on a 3D model of the bone f...