Patent ID: 11931049
Assignee: DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  Y | IPC A

Claim 18:
19. A method comprising:
obtaining an anterior/posterior X-ray image showing a coronal profile of a portion of a patient's knee bone,
obtaining a medial/lateral X-ray image showing a sagittal profile of the portion of the patient's knee bone, and
positioning a customized patient-specific orthopaedic surgical instrument on the patient's knee bone with a patient-specific contoured surface of the customized patient-specific orthopaedic surgical instrument overlaying at least a portion of the sagittal profile of the patient's knee bone that was shown in the medial/lateral X-ray image, wherein the customized patient-specific orthopaedic surgical instrument is made using a digital bone model generated from the anterior/posterior X-ray image and the medial/lateral X-ray image of the patient's knee bone.