US Patent Issued to Orthosoft on March 11 for "Patient-specific instrumentation and methods for ankle arthroplasty" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,779, issued on March 11, was assigned to Orthosoft ULC.

"Patient-specific instrumentation and methods for ankle arthroplasty" was invented by Bahareh Khatibi (Montreal), Jeremie Menard (Montreal), Trong-Tin Nguyen (Laval, Canada), Jean-Francois Girouard (Terrasse-Vaudreuil, Canada), Antony Bou-Francis (Verdun, Canada), Quentin Derouault (Montreal), Nicholas Boudreau (Repentigny, Canada) and Sandra Snyder (Plymouth, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Patient-specific guide systems and methods for performing bone resections for ankle arthroplasties comprises a bone guide body and a bone resection block. The bone guide body comprises ...