US Patent Issued to 25SEGMENTS on July 7 for "Expandable intervertebral cage" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,965, issued on July 7, was assigned to 25SEGMENTS AG (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Expandable intervertebral cage" was invented by Robert Frigg (Bettlach, Switzerland), Daniel Fluri (Grenchen, Switzerland), Mazda Farshad (Zumikon, Switzerland) and Patrick Burki (Solothurn, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expandable intervertebral cage includes a base with a circumferential side wall extending in a first direction and a first bone interaction surface and a stage including a second bone interaction surface arranged essentially opposite to the first bone interaction surface with respect to the expandable intervertebral cage. An e...