US Patent Issued to ASTURA MEDICAL on Sept. 29 for "Auto-locking expandable corpectomy column" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,130, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to ASTURA MEDICAL INC (Irving, Texas).

"Auto-locking expandable corpectomy column" was invented by Ross Dusterhoft (Irving, Texas) and Thomas Purcell (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vertebral body replacement system that includes an auto-locking system that is easy to use without additional instrumentation."

The patent was filed on Oct. 19, 2024, under Application No. 18/920,851.

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