ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,218, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).
"Systems and methods for treating a joint" was invented by Brian Fouts (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Christopher Zeh (Parker, Colo.) and Ruth Godbey (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are computer visual guidance systems for guiding surgeons through arthroscopic debridement of bony pathologies, including by automatically generating annotations relating to characteristics of bony pathology in an image. The annotation may be generated in accordance with a determination as to whether a femoral head of the bony pathology is endospherical or exospheri...