US Patent Issued to Intelligent Implants on July 15 for "System and method for positioning and orienting an orthopedic implant" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,476, issued on July 15, was assigned to Intelligent Implants Ltd. (Cork, Ireland).

"System and method for positioning and orienting an orthopedic implant" was invented by Erik Robert Zellmer (Gothenburg, Sweden), Rory Kenneth John Murphy (Phoenix) and John Michael Zellmer (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for positioning and orienting an orthopedic implant that includes an implant body; a sensor system integrated into the implant body, the sensor system comprising of at least a plurality of electrodes positioned within the implant body such there is at least one exposed region on the surface of th...