US Patent Issued to MicroPort Orthopedics Holdings on March 4 for "Systems and methods for using photogrammetry to create patient-specific guides for orthopedic surgery" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,389, issued on March 4, was assigned to MicroPort Orthopedics Holdings Inc. (Arlington, Tenn.).

"Systems and methods for using photogrammetry to create patient-specific guides for orthopedic surgery" was invented by Fred W. Bowman (Germantown, Tenn.), C. Brian McDaniel Sr. (Arlington, Tenn.), Paul S. Bryant (Collierville, Tenn.) and Brian R. Harris Jr. (Cordova, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating patient-specific surgical guides comprising: capturing a first and second images of an orthopedic element in different reference frames using a radiographic imaging technique, detecting spatial data defin...