US Patent Issued on July 14 for "Intra-vertebral body device for vertebral kyphoplasty with dual expansion (cranio-caudal and medio-lateral) capability" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,292, issued on July 14.

"Intra-vertebral body device for vertebral kyphoplasty with dual expansion (cranio-caudal and medio-lateral) capability" was invented by Tobias A. Mattei (Eureka, Mo.) and Nicholas Musgrave (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intra-vertebral body mechanical device for cement augmentation of a fractured vertebral body which has a plurality of upper plates and a plurality of lower plates. An expansion mechanism is operably connected between the upper plates and the lower plates. The expansion mechanism is operable to cause the plurality of upper plates to move to side-by-side relative positions increasi...