ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,995, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NuVasive Inc. (San Diego).
"Surgical spinal correction" was invented by Thomas Scholl (San Diego), Mark Peterson (San Diego) and Robert Isaacs (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for planning, performing, and assessing of surgical correction to the spine during a spinal surgical procedure. This method is implemented by a control unit through a GUI to digitize screw locations, digitize anatomical reference points, accept one or more correction inputs, and generate one or more rod solution outputs shaped to engage the screws at locations distinct from the originally dig...