US Patent Issued to MicroPort Orthopedics Holdings on Feb. 11 for "System for forming a patient specific surgical guide mount" (Tennessee, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,134, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to MicroPort Orthopedics Holdings Inc. (Arlington, Tenn.).

"System for forming a patient specific surgical guide mount" was invented by Michael Carroll (Memphis, Tenn.), Richard Obert (Poway, Calif.) and Paul Stemniski (Arlington, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing a customized tibial resection guide locator comprising: mapping a contoured surface of the proximal tibia onto a digital model of a resection guide locator to create a digital model of a customized resection guide locator; and manufacturing the customized resection guide locator to include: a complementary surfac...