US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION on Oct. 7 for "Method, apparatus, and computer program product for bone alignment for syndesmosis fixation" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,612, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Method, apparatus, and computer program product for bone alignment for syndesmosis fixation" was invented by Jennifer A. Nichols (Gainesville, Fla.) and Christopher Reb (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a method, apparatus, and computer program product for bone alignment for syndesmosis fixation, and more particularly, to using two-dimensional images for three-dimensional reconstruction for center-center alignment of bones for syndesmosis fixation. Methods include: obtaining at least one two-di...