US Patent Issued to MEDICREA INTERNATIONAL on March 25 for "Methods, systems, and devices for designing and manufacturing a spinal rod" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,000, issued on March 25, was assigned to MEDICREA INTERNATIONAL (France).

"Methods, systems, and devices for designing and manufacturing a spinal rod" was invented by Thomas Mosnier (Rochetaillee sur Saone, France) and David Ryan (Rochetaillee sur Saone, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, the process includes the steps of: a) taking a sagittal preoperative x-ray of the vertebral column of the patient to be treated, extending from the cervical vertebrae to the femoral heads; b) on that x-ray, identifying points on S1, S2, T12 et C7; c) depicting, on the said x-ray, curved segments beginning at the ce...