US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Aug. 4 for "Surgical plate systems" (Pennsylvania, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,229, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Surgical plate systems" was invented by Kurt Faulhaber (Cape Coral, Fla.) and Bala Sundararajan (Exton, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved bone plate systems are described herein. In some instances, a bone plate system can include a base plate, at least one retainer plate, and at least one spacer. The at least one retainer plate is configured to reside on the base plate in a free floating manner and can receive at least one fastener to secure the retainer plate to the at least one spacer, thereby providing a plate system that attaches to a spacer. In ...