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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2012
H. David Dean, Shaker Heights, OH (US);
Krishnamoorthy Subramanyan, Palatine, IL (US);
Alexandros T. Moullas, Thessaloniki, GR;
Robert A. Ratcheson, Shaker Heights, OH (US);
H. David Dean, Shaker Heights, OH (US);
Krishnamoorthy Subramanyan, Palatine, IL (US);
Alexandros T. Moullas, Thessaloniki, GR;
Robert A. Ratcheson, Shaker Heights, OH (US);
Osteoplastics LLC, Pepper Pike, OH (US);
Abstract
A computer implemented method for determining the 3-dimensional shape of an implant to be implanted into a subject includes obtaining a computer readable image including a defective portion and a non-defective portion of tissue in the subject, superimposing on the image a shape to span the defective portion, and determining the 3-dimensional shape of the implant based on the shape that spans the defective portion.