ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,157, issued on May 27, was assigned to Ortho AI LLC (New York).

"System and method for patient-specific anatomical analyses" was invented by Jonathan Vigdorchik (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Seth Jerabek (Pelham, N.Y.) and David Mayman (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining patient-specific anatomical parameters to improve surgical outcomes. Some embodiments include processes for predicting the parameters of occluded anatomy. Some embodiment includes processes for more accurately identifying a center point of a ball and socket joint, such as a center point or center of rotation of a femoral head. Some embodi...