US Patent Issued to SMITH & NEPHEW, SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS, SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC on Oct. 14 for "Automated transosseous element planning for orthopedic devices" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,278, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SMITH & NEPHEW INC. (Memphis, Tenn.), SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG (Zug, Switzerland) and SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Automated transosseous element planning for orthopedic devices" was invented by Haden Janda (Germantown, Tenn.), Christin Denmon (Cordova, Tenn.) and Luke Cranford (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including: determining a configuration for an orthopedic device to attach with bone segments, the orthopedic device including a proximal ring, a distal ring, and adjustable struts interconnecting the proximal ring and the distal ring; re...