US Patent Issued on March 31 for "Interbody spinal cage" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,005, issued on March 31.

"Interbody spinal cage" was invented by Nazmi Peyman (Richmond, Va.), Edmond Zahedi (Burnaby, Canada) and Steven Fiore (Midlothian, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interbody spinal cage when implanted can be manipulated non-invasively to change dimensions conforming to contours of adjacent vertebral bones. The interbody spinal cage includes a flexible shell that encases multiple variable-length rods. Each of the multiple variable-length rods includes telescoping tubes and an actuator for increasing and decreasing the length of the telescoping tubes. Each of the variable-length rods includes a retention...