US Patent Issued to NIVALON MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES on April 29 for "System and method for planning and simulating a surgical operation to create a patient-specific spinal implant" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,220, issued on April 29, was assigned to NIVALON MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mansfield Center, Conn.).

"System and method for planning and simulating a surgical operation to create a patient-specific spinal implant" was invented by Todd W Hodrinsky (Mansfield Center, Conn.) and Marcel Janse (Mansfield Center, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for planning and simulating a surgical operation to create a patient-specific spinal implant are disclosed. The system comprises a remote server configured to receive patient-specific medical image data and generate a 3D mesh model of the patient's spine using algorithms tha...