US Patent Issued to Howmedica Osteonics on Nov. 4 for "Bone wall tracking and guidance for orthopedic implant placement" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,446, issued on Nov. 4, 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) and Vincent Gaborit (Saint Martin d'Heres, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example device includes a first sensor to sense a first value representative of distance to a bone wall inside a patient; a second sensor configured to sense a second value representative of a distance to an implant component inside the patient; processing circuitry configured to process the first value and the second value; and transmit...