US Patent Issued to Expanding Innovations on July 21 for "Retention assemblies for intervertebral devices" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,648, issued on July 21, was assigned to Expanding Innovations Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Retention assemblies for intervertebral devices" was invented by John Davis (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ron Sacher (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Al Mirel (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Consistent with the present disclosure, retention assemblies for maintaining the relative position of adjacent vertebral bodies and an implantable device positioned therebetween are described herein. Such retention assemblies may include a plate body and a coupler. The plate body may include structures to allow fixedly attaching the retention assembly t...