US Patent Issued to MEDICREA INTERNATIONAL on June 3 for "Systems and methods for planning a patient-specific spinal correction" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,144, issued on June 3, was assigned to MEDICREA INTERNATIONAL SA (France).

"Systems and methods for planning a patient-specific spinal correction" was invented by Nicholas Benson (Collierville, Tenn.) and Thomas Mosnier (Rochetaillee sur Saone, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to plan a spinal correction surgery. The method includes measuring parameters of a spine in a two-dimensional (2D) spinal image including a thoracic Cobb angle and a thoracic kyphosis (TK) and transforming the 2D image to a three-dimensional (3D), spinal image representation. The transforming includes performing segmentation...