US Patent Issued to MicroPort Orthopedics Holdings on March 11 for "Systems and methods of using photogrammetry for intraoperatively aligning surgical elements" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,825, issued on March 11, was assigned to MicroPort Orthopedics Holdings Inc. (Arlington, Tenn.).

"Systems and methods of using photogrammetry for intraoperatively aligning surgical elements" was invented by Brian R. Harris Jr. (Cordova, Tenn.) and Fred W. Bowman (Germantown, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for ascertaining a position of an orthopedic element in space comprising: capturing a first and second images of an orthopedic element in different reference frames using a radiographic imaging technique, detecting spatial data defining anatomical landmarks on or in the orthopedic element using a deep lear...