US Patent Issued to Stryker on March 25 for "Systems and methods for generating a three-dimensional model of a joint from two-dimensional images" (German, Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,996, issued on March 25, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for generating a three-dimensional model of a joint from two-dimensional images" was invented by Brian Fouts (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Jakob Kemper (Heemstede, Netherlands), Heiko Michael Gottschling (Munich) and Manuel Schroeder (Ellingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for modeling a joint before, during, and/or after a medical procedure includes receiving first imaging data capturing the joint from a first imaging perspective and second imaging data capturing the joint from a second imaging perspective that is different tha...