US Patent Issued to Howmedica Osteonics on Nov. 18 for "Virtual guidance for correcting surgical pin installation" (French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,013, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Howmedica Osteonics Corp. (Mahwah, N.J.).

"Virtual guidance for correcting surgical pin installation" was invented by Sergii Poltaretskyi (Ependes FR, Switzerland) and Nicolas Neichel (Le Sappey en Chartreuse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes determining, by the one or more processors, an actual orientation of a surgical pin as installed in a bone of a patient; obtaining, by the one or more processors, a planned orientation of the surgical pin; determining, by the one or more processors and based on a comparison between the actual orientation of the surgical pin ...