US Patent Issued to Howmedica Osteonics on July 15 for "System and method for predicting tissue integrity" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,388, issued on July 15, was assigned to Howmedica Osteonics Corp. (Mahwah, N.J.).

"System and method for predicting tissue integrity" was invented by Gokce Yildirim (Weehawken, N.J.) and John Parker (Pompton Lakes, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of diagnosing tissue integrity related to a joint of a patient may include imaging a first bone of the joint of the patient, determining a bone density profile of the first bone based on results of the imaging step, comparing the bone density profile of the first bone to at least one reference bone density profile of a reference first bone, and predicting an integrity...