ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,178, issued on April 21, was assigned to Combination Spine Inc. (Bethesda, Md.).
"Discectomy tool" was invented by Joshua M. Ammerman (Bethesda, Md.) and Richard Briganti (Bala Cynwyd, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A discectomy device for clearing material out of a disc space of a patient having a body, a first rotatable member at the distal portion of the body, and a second rotatable member at the distal portion of the body spaced from the first rotatable member. A transverse axis passes through the first and second rotatable members. A first mechanism is actuable to rotate the first and second rotatable members about the tran...