US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC SOFAMOR DANEK USA on April 15 for "Spinal surgery outcome prediction" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,498, issued on April 15, was assigned to MEDTRONIC SOFAMOR DANEK USA INC. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Spinal surgery outcome prediction" was invented by Saba Pasha (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spinal surgery training process includes the steps of capturing a plurality of 2D images for each of a plurality of spines, generating a curve of each spine from the respective 2D images based on locations of select vertebrae in each of the spines, grouping the spines into one of a number of groups based on similarity to produce groups of spines having similarities, performing the capturing, generating, determining and grouping steps at le...