US Patent Issued to Stryker on Sept. 9 for "Systems and methods for simulating spine and skeletal system pathologies" (Virginia, Pennsylvania, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,666, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for simulating spine and skeletal system pathologies" was invented by John Schmidt (Bluemont, Va.), Margaret Redford (Isle of Palms, S.C.), Jennifer McCool (Boyce, Va.), Anthony Young (Annandale, Va.), Noah Q. Johnson (Leesburg, Va.) and Kylie Pleakis (Bradford, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for rapid generation of simulations of a patient's spinal morphology that enable pre-operative viewing of a patient's condition and to assist surgeons in determining the best corrective procedure and with any of the...