US Patent Issued to Nuvasive on Sept. 30 for "Prediction of postoperative global sagittal alignment based on full-body musculoskeletal modeling and posture optimization" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,952, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Nuvasive Inc. (San Diego, Pa.).

"Prediction of postoperative global sagittal alignment based on full-body musculoskeletal modeling and posture optimization" was invented by Dominika Ignasiak (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for surgical planning and assessment of spinal pathology or spinal deformity correction in a subject, the system comprises a control unit configured to align one or more vertebral bodies of a biomechanical model to one or more vertebral bodies of the radiograph. The control unit is configured to receive one or more spinal correction inputs. The control un...