ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,525, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to AIS SPINE TECHNOLOGIES LTD (Reading, Great Britain).

"Intervertebral devices" was invented by Jonathan Arcos (Reading, Great Britain), Christopher Reah (Reading, Great Britain), Nicholas Sandham (Reading, Great Britain), David Powell (Reading, Great Britain), John Sutcliffe (Reading, Great Britain) and Patrick Mckenna (Reading, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intervertebral fusion device comprises an endplate, a core component and at least one ratchet. Each of the endplate and the core component has a leading end and a trailing end and is configured to be received in an interver...