ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,631, issued on April 15, was assigned to Exactech Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).
"Soft tissue balancing in robotic knee surgery" was invented by Pierre Couture (Montreal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method may be used to evaluate soft tissue. A knee arthroplasty soft tissue evaluation may use an adjustable spacer, such as varying sized physical spacers or an inflatable bladder, along with a sensor to measure force, pressure, gap distance, or the like during a range of motion test. A method may include maintaining an equal pressure or gap distance for a medial component and a lateral component of an adjustable spacer during a...