ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,603, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to ORTHOSOFT ULC (Montreal).

"Patient-specific instrumentation for implant revision surgery" was invented by Ramnada Chav (Laval, Canada), Jean-Sebastien Merette (Mont-St-Hilaire, Canada), Tin Nguyen (Laval, Canada), Karine Duval (Montreal) and Pierre Couture (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for creating at least one model of a bone and implanted implant comprises a processing unit; and a non-transitory computer-readable memory communicatively coupled to the processing unit and comprising computer-readable program instructions executable by the processing unit for: obtaining at le...