US Patent Issued to Howmedica Osteonics on Feb. 17 for "Bone wall tracking and guidance for orthopedic implant placement" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,290, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Howmedica Osteonics Corp. (Mahwah, N.J.).

"Bone wall tracking and guidance for orthopedic implant placement" was invented by Benjamin Dassonville (Saint Hilaire du Touvet, France), Vincent Gaborit (Saint Martin d'Heres, France), Damien Cariou (Loperhet, France) and Yannick Morvan (Saint Renan, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes registering a virtual model of a portion of a bone of a patient with a corresponding observed portion of the bone, the virtual model including a representation of a wall of the bone; registering a virtual model of an implant component with a...