US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Feb. 17 for "Adjustable, modular instrument and method for spinal manipulation" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,243, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Adjustable, modular instrument and method for spinal manipulation" was invented by Caelan Allen (Ambler, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spinal manipulation instrument, system, and method may use a driving rod to move instrument arms toward or away from one another to compress or distract between selected vertebrae to which the arms are connected. Two arms may be coupled to the driving rod. A threaded collar may axially engage one of the arms, to translate that arm along the driving rod with respect to the other arm. The other arm may be at a fixed axia...