US Patent Issued to Show-Chwan Memorial Hospital on Dec. 30 for "Ultrasonic femoral head positioning device and hip-knee-ankle angle measurement system" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,982, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Show-Chwan Memorial Hospital (Changhua, Taiwan).

"Ultrasonic femoral head positioning device and hip-knee-ankle angle measurement system" was invented by Ming-Chou Ku (Taichung, Taiwan) and Yuan-Hsin Tsai (Changhua, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is an ultrasonic femoral head positioning device and hip-knee-ankle (HKA) angle measurement system. The ultrasonic femoral head positioning device includes an ultrasonic image capture unit for obtaining images of the femoral head, a gyroscope to verify the horizontal state of the ultrasonic image capture unit, and a process...