US Patent Issued to SMITH & NEPHEW, SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS, SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC on April 1 for "System and method for tracking resection planes" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,896, issued on April 1, was assigned to SMITH & NEPHEW INC. (Memphis, Tenn.), SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG (Zug, Switzerland) and SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. (Singapore).

"System and method for tracking resection planes" was invented by Riddhit Mitra (Pittsburgh), Branislav Jaramaz (Pittsburgh), Samuel Dumpe (Beaver, Pa.) and Constantinos Nikou (Monroeville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for tracking resection planes during a surgical procedure includes a cutting block and a position tracker. The cutting block is configured to be mounted on an anterior surface of a bone during the surgical procedure. The cut...