ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,489, issued on April 14, was assigned to GBS Commonwealth Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) and PMT Republic Inc. (Walnut, Calif.).

"Spinal cage fixable through insertion of bone screws" was invented by Kyoung Gee Ahn (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a spinal cage fixable through insertion of bone screws including a cage body, a receiver disposed on a front surface of the cage body and provided with a plurality of screw holes formed therein so that the bone screws pass through the screw holes to be inserted thereinto, and a fixture coupled to the receiver adjacent to the screw holes and configured to selec...