ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,535, issued on March 24, was assigned to Genesys Spine (Austin, Texas).

"Stand alone interbody spinal system" was invented by Joshua Kaufmann (Austin, Texas), Greg Calbert (Austin, Texas), Scott Bryant (Austin, Texas), Brian Bergeron (Austin, Texas), Landon Gilkey (Austin, Texas), Ben Keller (Austin, Texas), Bernard H. Guiot (Denver), Aizik Wolf (Miami), Matthew Philips (Dartmouth, Mass.) and John T. Friedland (Destin, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes an orthopedic fusion system comprising: a cage; a curved first channel coupling a lateral wall of the cage to a superior surface of the cage; a curved second ...