US Patent Issued on Oct. 6 for "Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion implant" (South African Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,834, issued on Oct. 6.

"Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion implant" was invented by Gert Stephanus Becker (Waverley, South Africa), Jacob Adriaan Eksteen (Paarl, South Africa) and Shawn Venter (Paarl, South Africa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion device 10 comprises an elongate implant body 12 having opposed first and second ends 14, 16. The implant body 12 has a longitudinal axis 17. The body 12 defines a slot 18 between the first and second ends 14, 16. The slot 18 divides the implant body 12 into a first body part 20 having a first surface 22 and a second body part 24 having a second surfa...