ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,964, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to PROPRIO INC. (Wash.).

"Methods and systems for determining alignment parameters of a surgical target, such as a spine" was invented by Robert Bruce Grupp Jr. (Edgewood, Wash.), David Lee Fiorella (Seattle), Thomas A. Carls (Memphis, Tenn.), Samuel R. Browd (Mercer Island, Wash.), Adam Gabriel Jones (Seattle), James Andrew Youngquist (Seattle) and Richard Earl Simpkinson (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for intraoperatively determining alignment parameters of a spine during a spinal surgical procedure are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method of intra...