ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,862, issued on March 17.
"Sacroiliac fusion implant" was invented by Adam Isaac Lewis (Madison, Miss.) and Lauren Chase Thornburg (Cumming, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sacroiliac fusion implant device assembly has an implant body and a pair of bone fasteners. The implant body has a distal end and a proximal end with a longitudinal axis extending between a center of the distal end and a center of the proximal end. The distal end has cutting edges configured to cut tissue as the implant is pressed into a joint between a sacrum and an ilium. The proximal end has two bone fastener receiving apertures, each configured to receive...