ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,998, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NuVasive Inc. (San Diego).
"Automated pedicle screw planning" was invented by Sean O'Connor (San Diego), Adrien Ponticorvo (San Diego), Samuel Kadoury (Mont-Royal, Canada) and William Trung Le (Montreal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatically determining pedicle screw trajectories for surgery may be provided. A scan of a spine may be received, and positions of one or more vertebra and one or more components of the one or more vertebra in the scan may be identified. Next, a screw trajectory planning algorithm may determine an initial screw trajectory plan using the p...