ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,138, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MEDICREA INTERNATIONAL (France).

"Pre-operative plan generation for an operation on a spine" was invented by Nicholas Benson (Collierville, Tenn.) and Adam K. Deitz (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for automatically generating a pre-operative plan is disclosed that may include using a computing device to receive, from an electronic device associated with a physician, an identification message comprising identifying information associated with a target patient for a surgical procedure. The computing device may retrieve medical information associated with the targ...