US Patent Issued to SMITH & NEPHEW, SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS, SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC on May 27 for "Sagittal rotation determination" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,667, issued on May 27, was assigned to SMITH & NEPHEW INC. (Memphis, Tenn.), SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG (Zug, Switzerland) and SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Sagittal rotation determination" was invented by Steffen Beck (Munich), Mario Schubert (Poing, Germany), Christian Brack (NeusaB, Germany) and Luise Poitzsch (Osnabruck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of determining the sagittal rotation of a patient's pelvis based on a standard anterior posterior X-ray-image with known image parameters and a calibration of the image, for example by using at least one King-Mark c...