US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Dec. 30 for "Patient registration for total hip arthroplasty procedure using pre-operative computed tomography (CT), intra-operative fluoroscopy, and/or point cloud data" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,972, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Patient registration for total hip arthroplasty procedure using pre-operative computed tomography (CT), intra-operative fluoroscopy, and/or point cloud data" was invented by Hayden Cameron (Philadelphia), Richard H. Washburn II (Wayne, Pa.), Israel Oluwasakin (Dresher, Pa.), Stephen Cragg (Philadelphia), Loris Duch (Bretigny-sur-Morrens, Switzerland) and Benoit Brot (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for computer assisted navigation during surgery includes a computer platform that operates to register a target surgical area of a p...