US Patent Issued to NuVasive on July 15 for "Systems and methods for planning, performing, and assessing spinal correction during surgery" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,393, issued on July 15, was assigned to NuVasive Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for planning, performing, and assessing spinal correction during surgery" was invented by Thomas Scholl (San Diego), Robert E. Isaacs (San Diego), Shannon White (San Diego), Albert Pothier (San Diego), Robert German (San Diego), Eric Finley (San Diego), James E. Gharib (San Diego) and Mark Peterson (Central Point, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided for planning, performing, and assessing of surgical correction to the spine during a spinal surgical procedure. These methods are implemented by a control unit through a GUI to dig...