ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,088, issued on July 1, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp..
"Lower extremities leg length calculation method" was invented by Daniel Odermatt (Weston, Fla.) and Matthew Thompson (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of calculating leg length discrepancy of a patient including: receiving patient bone data associated with a lower body of the patient; identifying anatomical landmarks in the patient bone data; orienting a first proximal landmark and a second proximal landmark relative to each other and an origin in a coordinate system; aligning a first axis associated with a first femur and a second axis associate...