US Patent Issued to Icahn School of Medicine At Mount Sinai on May 20 for "Custom hip design and insertability analysis" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,393, issued on May 20, was assigned to Icahn School of Medicine At Mount Sinai (New York).

"Custom hip design and insertability analysis" was invented by Sulaiman Somani (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer implemented methods, systems, and computer products employing program code or algorithms for use in customized patient specific hip implants or femoral stems or sleeves having an outer surface that corresponds more closely to the inner surface of the cortical bone of a patient's femur compared to conventional hip implant or femoral stems or sleeves based on population-based design."

The patent was filed on Oct. 18, 2...