Patent ID: 9554862
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61F,G16H

Claim:
1. A method of manufacturing a prosthetic implant comprising: generating a virtual bone model based on image information obtained from at least one bone; determining a proposed height of the prosthetic implant at a first location on the virtual bone model; determining a proposed resection depth into the at least one bone at the first location based at least in part on the proposed height of the prosthetic implant; determining an at least partially curved resection path across a portion of the virtual bone model, the curved resection path intersecting the first location and following at least one outer surface contour on the virtual bone model such that there is a substantially smooth transition between the virtual bone model and the curved resection path; and fabricating a prosthetic implant having a curved sagittal wall corresponding to the curved resection path.