US Patent Issued to SMITH & NEPHEW, SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS, SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC on Oct. 28 for "Patella tracking method and system" (Pennsylvania, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,599, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SMITH & NEPHEW INC. (Memphis, Tenn.), SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG (Zug, Switzerland) and SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Patella tracking method and system" was invented by Roger Ryan Dees Jr. (Drummonds, Tenn.), Constantinos Nikou (Monroeville, Pa.) and Branislav Jaramaz (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of improving a patello-femoral response is described. A computing system characterizes an anterior geometry of a patella and determines a position of a posterior apex of the patella in relation to one or more features of the anterio...