ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,207, issued on May 20, was assigned to Howmedica Osteonics Corp. (Mahwah, N.J.).
"Automated planning of shoulder stability enhancement surgeries" was invented by Maximilien Mayya (Antibes, France) and Jean Chaoui (Locmaria Plouzane, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems are described for planning shoulder stability enhancement surgeries. A computing system may determine a size of a predicted premorbid glenoid bone of the patient of a patient, a size of a Bankart lesion on a morbid glenoid bone of the patient, and a size of a geodesic surface on a 3-dimensional model of a predicted premorbid humerus of the patie...