US Patent Issued to Mighty Oak Medical on July 15 for "Patient-matched apparatus for use in spine related surgical procedures and methods for using the same" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,413, issued on July 15, was assigned to Mighty Oak Medical Inc. (Englewood, Colo.).

"Patient-matched apparatus for use in spine related surgical procedures and methods for using the same" was invented by George Frey (Englewood, Colo.), Caleb Voelkel (Lakewood, Colo.) and Adam Jensen (Golden, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to embodiments of a patient-specific or patient-matched, customized apparatus for assisting in various surgical procedures. In varying embodiments, patient-specific guides may comprise multiple patient-specific surfaces for mating with the underlying patient anatomy and may furth...