US Patent Issued to Medtronic Navigation on Feb. 3 for "Systems and methods for bone graft mixture guidance based on navigation information" (Tennessee, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,220, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Medtronic Navigation Inc. (Lafayette, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for bone graft mixture guidance based on navigation information" was invented by Jeffrey M. Badura (Collierville, Tenn.), Daniel A. Shimko (Germantown, Tenn.), Victor D. Snyder (Erie, Colo.), Jerald L. Redmond (Germantown, Tenn.) and Nikhil Mahendra (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method according to one embodiment includes: determining a volume of a harvested autograft, the determining including: receiving an image depicting an anatomical element, the image segmented into a plurality of voxels with each voxel ...