US Patent Issued to Mighty Oak Medical on Oct. 14 for "Systems and methods for presurgical planning" (Colorado, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,276, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Mighty Oak Medical Inc. (Englewood, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for presurgical planning" was invented by George Frey (Englewood, Colo.), Caleb Voelkel (West Glover, Vt.), Tyler Drumm (Englewood, Colo.) and Nicholas Hobson (Englewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing surgical planning are described in this application. In varying aspects, patient-specific instrument, guides or implants used in the surgical procedure may comprise multiple patient-specific surfaces for mating with the patient's anatomy. The methods preferably include precise manipulation of ...