ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,024, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Howmedica Osteonics Corp. (Mahwah, N.J.).
"Joint balancing" was invented by Matthias Verstraete (Chaam, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are a system for determining ligament tension and a method for utilizing the same in a knee balancing procedure. The system according may include a first sensor to measure a first load at a first condyle of a femur, a second sensor to measure a second load at a second condyle of the femur, an inertial measurement unit to measure angular change of a tibial mechanical axis of a tibia during a rotation of the tibia in a coronal plane, and...