Patent ID: 9573322
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61F,B29C,B33Y,G06F,Y10T

Claim:
1. A method of fabricating an orthopedic implant comprising: mounting an original orthopedic trial to a specific patient in a surgical process, the orthopedic trial having a plurality of elements including elements that move with respect to each other and at least one of the plurality of elements being a reconfigurable element; moving the surgically mounted elements with respect to each other in the patient; generating patient-specific intraoperative kinematic data related to the at least one reconfigurable element based on the movement of the elements of the orthopedic trial; using a computer and database, processing the intraoperative kinematic data and comparing the intraoperative kinematic data to pre-existing data associated with at least one patient; using the processed intraoperative kinematic data and the comparison of the data to develop at least one additional orthopedic trial, the additional orthopedic trial having a different reconfigurable element than the reconfigurable element in the original orthopedic trial and generating and processing additional interoperative kinematic data; using the processed intraoperative kinematic data and the comparison of the data to develop at least one component of an orthopedic implant; rapid manufacturing the at least one developed orthopedic implant component for implantation into the patient during the surgical process.