US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Dec. 2 for "Systems and methods for expandable corpectomy spacer implantation" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,017, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for expandable corpectomy spacer implantation" was invented by Dylan McFarland (Pottstown, Pa.), Matthew Bakey (Philadelphia), Colm McLaughlin (Glenside, Pa.), David Leff (Philadelphia), Samuel Petersheim (Elverson, Pa.) and George Howard (Green Lane, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implant assembly including an expandable vertebral body replacement implant. The implant assembly includes a right hand end and a left hand end configured to attach to a threaded actuator. An outer ring is configured to surround each of the right and left ...