US Patent Issued to Howmedica Osteonics on May 20 for "Pre-morbid characterization of anatomical object using statistical shape modeling (SSM)" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,658, issued on May 20, was assigned to Howmedica Osteonics Corp. (Mahwah, N.J.).

"Pre-morbid characterization of anatomical object using statistical shape modeling (SSM)" was invented by Sergii Poltaretskyi (Plougonvelin, France), Jean Chaoui (Locmaria Plouzane, France) and Maximilien Mayya (Brest, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for determining a pre-morbid shape of an anatomical object. Processing circuitry may determine an aligned shape based on image data with under- or over-segmentation. The processing circuitry may utilize the aligned shape and a shape model such as a mean shape model of the anato...